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In 2013, Kelly McGonigal gave a TED talk that changed everything about stress. 17M+ views for a reason. Her findings: • Believing stress is bad kills 20K yearly • Stress response has built-in healing • Caring creates resilience 8 lessons that change everything: 🧵

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Did you know that certain types of stress can actually be positive for young children’s healthy development? On first blush this may sound counterintuitive. But it’s true. Here’s why: No one is immune from stress in life - and while the prolonged and chronic activation of the body’s stress response systems (as a result of things like domestic violence, drug abuse, and/or a caregiver’s mental illness) can have developmentally toxic effects on children, periodic exposure to “positive stress” helps them learn to navigate the world around us. What is positive stress? In a nutshell, positive stress is short-term and well-supported exposure to things that may be uncomfortable - or even a little bit frightening. Things like: Having to share your toys. Visiting the doctor’s office for an immunization. The first day in a new classroom. Or, in this case, going through the car wash. Positive stress helps to nurture resilience and bravery - which this little guy is showing in abundance. Watch how hard he works to overcome his apprehension about the car wash - powering through in a (semi-successful) effort to convince himself that the experience is actually fantastic. (Fake it ‘til you make it, little guy!) He’s under some stress, but that’s okay. It’s brief, he’s completely safe, and he is well supported by his parents - allowing him to begin developing essential life skills. To be clear, the message here is NOT to seek out opportunities to create anxiety. Instead, it is that we are all periodically exposed to brief periods of discomfort and that these aren’t necessarily to be avoided at all costs, even during the early years. This sweet video via briannaaweaver on TT.

Dan Wuori

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Naval Ravikant: "You're going to die. It's all going to zero. What's there to stress about?" "Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress." Naval explains the difference between stress and anxiety: "Anxiety is this pervasive, unidentifiable stress where you're stressed out all the time and you're not even sure why. The reason is you have so many unresolved problems that have piled up in your life, you can no longer identify what the problems are. There's this mountain of garbage in your mind. A little bit is poking out the top like an iceberg; that's anxiety. But underneath, there's a lot of unresolved things." He shares his personal anxiety resolver: "One big anxiety resolver for me is just ruminating on death. You're going to die. It's all going to zero. You cannot take anything with you. If you can keep that idea in front of you at all times, what's there to stress about?" Naval reframes what "wasted time" really means: "What is wasted time? Everything is wasted time in a sense because nothing matters in the ultimate. But in each moment, it's the only thing that matters. So if you're doing something you want to do and you're fully there for it it's not wasted time. If your mind is running away, wishing you were somewhere else, anticipating the future, regretting the past, that's wasted time. That's time you're not present for." He concludes: "People get worried about dying and no longer being here. But they don't realize that so much of their life is spent not being here in any case."

Jaynit

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