The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
But the experience of the stress associated with that, the challenge, the adversity, that experience can lead to and enhancing outcomes with respect to not just our cognition, but our health, our performance and our wellbeing.
Every Sunday: the week’s new conflicts and verdict changes — and nothing else.
Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
And in fact, there's a large amount of evidence to support the fact that the experience of stress, meaning encountering adversity or challenge in one's goal related efforts, does not have to be debilitating. And in many cases, the body's response was designed to enhance our ability to manage at those moments, right?
If you have a stressors enhancing mindset, the motivation changes, right? Then the motivation is, how do I utilize the stress to realize the enhancing outcomes? What can we do here, right? To learn from this experience, to make us stronger, fitter, have better science and treatments for the future, deepen my relationships with others, improve my priorities and so forth, right?
And we found in a number of correlational studies that a more enhancing stress mindset was linked to better health outcomes, better wellbeing and higher performance.
Having a stresses enhancing mindset doesn't mean the stressor is a good thing. Right? It doesn't mean that getting diagnosis is a good thing or being in abject poverty is a good thing. These are not good things. But the experience of the stress associated with that, the challenge, the adversity, that experience can lead to enhancing outcomes with respect to uh not just our cognition, but our health, our performance, and our well-being.
And we found in a number of correlational studies that that uh more enhancing stress mindset was linked to uh better health outcomes uh better well-being and higher performance.
And we've developed a three-step approach to adopting a stresses enhancing mindset. And briefly, it's the first step is to just acknowledge that you're stressed. The second step is to welcome it because inherently in that stress is something you care about. And then the third step is to utilize the stress response to achieve the thing you care about. Not spend your time, money, effort, energy trying to get rid of the stress.