This week, the star also shared her new approach to coping with stress at work - a simple two letter word.

While many argue that saying "yes" is the key to opening more doors, Dunham says she's started to say "no" and that it's worked wonders for her personal life.

"Work is, organically, a place of yes," she writes in a guest post on LinkedIn. "Because I had so much shame about the private strings of unanswered texts, broken plans, re-made promises, at work it became my mission to answer every email no matter the hour, agree to every added task, finish the day off by reading a link sent by a colleague rather than a book for pleasure."

"And for awhile, it worked like a charm. A compliment like “you’re the fastest email-er I know,” or “how do you do so much at once?” was better than a romantic sweet nothing to me. It fulfilled my desire to be seen as unsinkable, reliable. And in the deepest place, lovable.But we can only pull off a high wire act for so long before gravity does its job. The more my personal relationships suffered, the more I wanted to work."

She says as soon as a polite “no” entered her vernacular - “I can’t do it realistically by Friday,” or “I wish I could be on that panel but my week is insane,” or even “no, I’m not comfortable with this dynamic” - And "something miraculous happened".

"People respond well to honesty, to reality. They understand." Read Lena's full article at linkedin.com.

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