The Upside of Stress
by Kelly McGonigal · first published 2015
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"More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Stanford psychologist and bestselling author Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., delivers a startling message: Stress isn't bad. In The Upside of Stress, McGonigal highlights new research indicating that stress can, in fact, make us stronger, smarter, and happier--if we learn how to embrace it"--
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…generally takes years to recover from. The former is mostly psychological; the latter starts psychologically but most definitely crosses into the territory of the physical. As an aside; the book The Upside of Stress [1] is a really good book on dividing 'good stress' which basically trains up your body and 'bad stress' which bathes you in damaging hormones. Many burnouts happen when someone with a high workload unwittingly…
on “The Reality of Developer Burnout” ↗Check out the book "The Upside of Stress" by Kelly McGonigal (or watch her TED talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress...). It helped me understand how different sources of stress were affecting me and how I was framing…
on “What Stress Does to the Brain” ↗…also causes good things (challenge response). And the rats in these studies are usually essentially tortured (which is definitely something to avoid). I highly recommend everyone look at the book "The Upside of Stress", the Ted Talk is here: https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress...
on “How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white” ↗…and increase their overall impact on the company they are today. I highly recommend reading this post to find some new strategies and tactics to operate within healthy limits, and buying the book The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal.
on “Stripe Atlas: Guide to managing founder stress” ↗