The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
learning that stress is a way of mobilizing resources in the body does two things first of all it allows us to dampen or adjust the stress response in real time and it allows us to understand that that stress response heightens our level of focus in a way that allows us to pay attention to the things that are going wrong in a way that allows us to make correction to those errors in the future
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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And in many cases, the body's response was designed to enhance our ability to manage at those moments. Right? So, some research showing that stress narrows our focus, increases our attention, speeds up the rate at which we're able to process information.
the effects that impress me the most are, for instance, the narrowing of visual attention that then um drives a capacity to parse time more finely, which then drives a capacity to process information faster. It's almost like a superpower