We all experience “microstresses,” some of us more than others: bumps in the road of our lives so small and brief that we barely register them. Not like macrostresses, such as racing your birthing wife to hospital and having your car break down or seeing the bridge ahead has washed out. But while microstresses may seem harmless individually, cumulatively they can sap our energy and damage our physical and emotional health, warn three US researchers. In an article in the Harvard Business Review, based on research on 300 “high performers” in multinational organizations and a global sample of mor…