Kelly McGonigal has shown that it’s better to chase meaning and trust that you can handle the journey than to look for ways to seek comfort and mediocrity.
Backed by data, this remarkable study tracked 30,000 adults in the United States for 8 years mapping stress experience against death records.What they found had huge implications!The biggest contributing factor to death were people’s perceptions of the effects of stress on their health.The results were shocking, when reviewing the past year participants who categorised themselves as ‘experiencing high stress’ and also ‘believed that stress was harmful for their health’ had 43% increased risk of dying.What’s even more surprising is that by contrast, those that didn’t believe stress was.
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