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Stress.

It's a head game.

It's an illusion of the mind.

Oh, I get that you feel stress.

You feel the tension in your body.

Your nervous system releases adrenaline hormones, which increases your heart rate, your blood

pressure, it shallows your breathing.

Yeah, all that's actually for real.

But the trigger, that was mental.

A perception, one that was made up in your mind.

What is stressful to one person is not to another.

Speaking on stage, making sales calls, solo climbing half-dome without rose, surfing

maverick waves, jumping out of a plane, driving a NASCAR, flying a helicopter, whatever.

The difference isn't the thing itself.

It's only the perception of the person doing it.

The dominant cultural view says, stress is bad for you, but that is wrong.

And it is leading people to regulate their goals and seek avenues to reduce or avoid stress.

This is bad, because the opposite is true.

In fact, stress is good for you.

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