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How to Turn Stress into an Advantage

Kelly McGonigal

99U, 2015

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Most people despise stress, which, according to conventional wisdom, damages your physical and mental well-being. Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal shatters this popular myth. She presents research proving that your outlook on stress determines whether it has a positive or negative influence on you. getAbstract challenges everyone who is suffering the downside of stress to watch McGonigal’s “mind-set intervention.” Her fascinating insights and superb delivery will entice you to reconsider your perception of stress and perhaps even to embrace it.

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Most people see stress as negative factor. But it is this attitude, rather than stress itself, that begets the adverse side effects often associated with stress.
According to the “stress paradox,” the more stressed you feel on a given day, the more likely you are to be sad, anxious or angry, but also to experience joy, love and laughter.
In fact, stress is an indicator of purpose and engagement, as those who experience meaningful lives tend to worry more.

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Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal is a lecturer at Stanford. She wrote The Upside of Stress.

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Y. P. 7 years ago

Good article!

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