Quick Cut: S2E193 The Upside of Stress with Kelly McGonigal

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Unknown, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Most of us do everything we can to avoid stress. But new research shows that if we learn to accept and even embrace stress, we will be happier and more effective in our lives. In this episode, Brian interviews Dr. Kelly McGonigal, author, health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University. Dr. McGonigal explains the benefits of stress and outlines how we can all learn and grow from challenging life experiences.

Mentioned in this episode

"The Upside of Stress" by Kelly McGonigal

TED Talk: How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal

Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:

“Stress isn’t always about attacking it and killing it and winning it.” — Kelly McGonigal

“Your brain and body have different ways of responding to stress that can help you thrive.” — Kelly McGonigal

“Most of us have a story in our head that says “this shouldn’t be stressful” for the very things that are most likely to cause stress.” — Kelly McGonigal

“Stress is something that arises in your mind and your body when something you care about is at stake.” — Kelly McGonigal

“We have stress responses in every relationship that matters to us, every role that matters to us and every goal that matters to us.” — Kelly McGonigal

“Surrender a little bit to the fact that if you went through something very stressful, your brain is going to try to learn from it. Do it intentionally. Sit down, write about it, talk to someone about it and reflect on it. That will help you recover more quickly and also help you learn from the experience so that you are stronger afterwards.” — Kelly McGonigal

“I don’t have to give my best energy towards outrage or fear that I actually can’t have any impact on.” — Kelly McGonigal

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.
0:10.0	Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.
0:15.0	I am so excited for you guys today to hear Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist, brilliant lady or TED Talk if you've never
0:25.6	seen it to over 19 million views. Fantastic stuff and that was actually how I first
0:30.6	came in contact with you Kelly and I'm delighted to have you on the show today
0:34.2	thanks for joining me. Well thanks for having me. People spend most of their life trying to avoid stress.
0:39.5	Stress is bad, stress is the enemy, stress is the devil. Maybe you can talk to us a little bit about that.
0:45.4	Sure. So like everyone else who was ever trained in psychology or medicine, I was taught that stress was the
0:50.6	enemy and it increases your risk of everything you don't want,
0:53.7	whether it's a common cold or a heart disease.
0:56.7	And I thought that my mission was to go out and tell people to avoid stress or reduce stress.
1:01.4	It just, it seems logical. but I started to come across this
1:04.0	really fascinating research almost a decade ago now that suggested that trying to
1:09.2	avoid stress might actually increase the avoid some of those outcomes
1:15.0	and accepting or embracing stress can actually help you avoid some of those
1:17.9	outcomes we don't want and also just make us happier and more effective at
1:21.6	life so I shifted my approach to really trying to
1:24.3	figure out okay if we're not supposed to avoid stress how do we engage with the things
1:28.7	that cause us stress so that we can be more skillful and that we can have a healthier response that lets us be our best
1:35.6	so talk a little bit about accepting and embracing stress give me a couple of tips on this
1:40.4	because I I've been a stress how in my whole life and I've failed at this I've
1:45.0	failed at trying to avoid stress I failed at becoming an adrenaline junkie that kind of
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