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139 reviews for:
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You and How to Get Good at It
Kelly McGonigal
4.08 AVERAGE
139 reviews for:
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You and How to Get Good at It
Kelly McGonigal
4.08 AVERAGE
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
informative
slow-paced
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
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Thiis book is a mindset intervention in of itself and will give you the mindset you need to utilize stress and not fear it. Your heart pumping before important events is because you care, and it is your body giving you the energy you need to perform. It also talks about how connecting with people and allowing yourself to feel the suffering of others, like patients, will better your life. Avoiding feeling other’s pain is not better
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Mostly a connection of anecdotes
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challenging
emotional
hopeful
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inspiring
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This book only gets better with time and repetition. I learn something new every time I pick it up, and every time it changes me.
Going into this book I was very skeptical, (it was a coach Taylor book after all). The author ends up crafting a pretty convincing argument about how stress can actually help you. Now I wish she used so more numbers, because some of these studies that she references could have been trash. However, the sheer number of studies referenced eventually won me around. Here's to getting stressed.
There are several points in the book where statements are made that leave you saying: "It cannot be that simple and straightforward". But they are all backed up with substantive research results. At the same time much of the book could be summarized with a couple of statements from another well known book: "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind" and "love your neighbor as yourself".