GoKawiilKey Takeaways Andrew Bosworth says he feels truly stressed only four or five times a year, despite the intensity of his role as Meta’s CTO and key lieutenant to Mark Zuckerberg.
He manages stress through deep breathing, exercise, time with his wife and kids and talking openly about what’s bothering him.
Other business leaders, like entrepreneur Emma Grede, have their own unique ways of managing stress.
Meta’s chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, doesn’t feel stressed on a daily basis. In fact, stress is a relatively rare occurrence in his professional life.
The CTO plays a key leadership role at Meta, a company known for maintaining rigorous performance standards and regularly trimming underperforming staff. One unit he leads, Reality Labs, has also faced its share of challenges, including major product pullbacks and rounds of layoffs.
Bosworth was recently asked, “How do you deal with work stress?” in an ask-me-anything he hosted on his Instagram.
“I don’t feel stressed out that often,” he responded on his Instagram. “It happens to me four or five times a year.”
Bosworth boiled his stress down to a single source: feeling constantly busy. When his schedule gets too packed, he worries that he won’t have enough time for the “important work,” which triggers stress.
“When I start to experience the stress, that’s a useful signal for me,” he said on Instagram. “What is the important work that, if you dedicated the time to it, you would be okay? And, how do we reprioritize the urgent stuff that’s being noisy?”
Bosworth handles stress by exercising, deep breathing and spending time with his family. He also likes to talk through his stress with his loved ones, especially his wife, he said.
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