#139 - How Complaining Is Hurting Your Intelligence

This line is too long, traffic is out of hand, my daughter spends too much money, my mother-in-law needs to get out of our personal business, and the IRS keeps making it more difficult for accountants to do their job. Does any of this sound familiar?

I’m sure you could come up with a whole lot more to complain about, especially as an accountant and a mom. As far as daily professional and personal challenges go, you’re dealing with more than the average person.

While we all complain about various circumstances in our lives from time to time, or get frustrated with the constant complainers in our lives, you should also know that complaining is actually affecting your intelligence, which can affect your accounting career. The reason complaining affects your intelligence is because it affects your brain.

Research from Stanford University has shown that complaining shrinks the hippocampus, which is an area of the brain that’s critical to problem-solving and intelligent thought. For accountants, this can become a big problem since our intelligence and problem-solving skills are what makes it possible for us to do what we do.

This week on The CPA MOMS Podcast I discuss why we complain, why it’s such a problem and how to stop

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