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The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You and How to Get Good at It
Kelly McGonigal
4.08 AVERAGE
140 reviews for:
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You and How to Get Good at It
Kelly McGonigal
4.08 AVERAGE
There’s some great content in this book about reframing and perspective but it is VERY slow and I fell asleep reading it everytime after like 10 pages
Compelling, evidence based book about stress and our relationship with it. Highly persuasive argument that how we THINK about the stress we face plays a huge role in determining whether it is ultimately hurtful or helpful.
Big a-ha for me: what if “I’m so stressed I just need to calm down” is exactly the wrong response before the big interview/test/game/speech?
Big a-ha for me: what if “I’m so stressed I just need to calm down” is exactly the wrong response before the big interview/test/game/speech?
"I'm so stressed, and I'm doing great," said like no one ever. Well, make that one person possibly: Kelly McGonigal.
Having stress means that something matters to you. Something has meaning to you. We do spend a lot of time dreaming of a life with no cares. That's a nice mindset to visit once in a while. But long term give me a place where my decisions and life mean something.
I do like the challenge mindset for stress. Each morning I wake up with a mental to do list in my head. If I just do these things, I'll be OK. If I do a few more things (stretch goal) then I'm ahead of the game.
It was at times challenging to read this book which I would give it 4 stars. Maybe there were more details of studies and less descriptions of stories.
Otherwise, those two little ideas I wrote about above are worth five years.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
five stars topic-wise, three stars book-wise. topic-wise: took a belief i've had trouble with ("stress is bad") and made a good argument against it. book-wise: i ended up skimming more as i read and found it tough to pay attention to the millionth study showing stress is (spoiler!!) not bad
memorable:
* the first scientific claims on stress come from experiments on rats in which they were pretty much abused -- aka foundational takes on stress do not abstract well to daily stress (unless you are repeatedly electrocuted)
* "helping someone else decreased people’s feeling of time scarcity more than actually giving them extra time did."
* "90 percent of the published research on stress was conducted on males." -- research that followed this discovery shows that the female stress response leans more towards being compassionate, caring and trusting than the male stress response
memorable:
* the first scientific claims on stress come from experiments on rats in which they were pretty much abused -- aka foundational takes on stress do not abstract well to daily stress (unless you are repeatedly electrocuted)
* "helping someone else decreased people’s feeling of time scarcity more than actually giving them extra time did."
* "90 percent of the published research on stress was conducted on males." -- research that followed this discovery shows that the female stress response leans more towards being compassionate, caring and trusting than the male stress response
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
This really was a game changing book for me (as a mom). The book provides tools to help you understand your stress and instead dreading it you can make it a tool. Life as a mom is hard and brings a whole new plate of stresses that you didn't know existed, but I applied some of the ideas and felt my world calm down a bit.
Хороший нон-фікшн, котрий лишній раз, за допомогою прикладів з життя і психологічних експерементів, нагадує, що як корабель назвеш - так він і попливе (вміти міняти не ситуацію, а відношення). Основний посил книги - не треба боятись стресу, бо це ще один стрес, а дозволити йому підсісти ближче і подивитись що буде.