Episode 1: Crabs

Join Yahoo Finance's Head of UK Finance, Lianna Brinded, as she explores crab mentality with renowned neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart. For questions or comments, you can reach the production team at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @YahooFinance and join our LinkedIn page here. For more great Work and Management content, bookmark our dedicated hub on Yahoo Finance, here.

The Jungle podcast is a new 10-part series that unpacks productivity lessons from nature, with Dr Swart explaining crab mentality in episode one. Dr Swart reveals her top strategy for surviving a stressful work environment.

"This isn't just all about leadership and business, it's about primal human behaviours and the crab is a really good analogy for not being able to let go and getting locked into a certain behaviour or way of thinking and once you're on that path it's sort of like a failure to admit to behave that way and you should go and behave differently," said Dr. Swart, who is also a medical doctor, Faculty at MIT Sloan, and award-winning author of Neuroscience for Leadership and The Source: Open Your Mind, Change Your Life.

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