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Hi everyone, it's Madu back in Ola, your guest host for the week.

Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Thursday.

As you know, this week is about shifting our perspective on stress and something that

can cause a lot of stress is making decisions.

We're often worried that we'll make the wrong choice or don't have enough time to weigh

all our options, but stress can actually be an asset to decision making if we know how

to use it.

So today, I'm going to talk about how stress affects our judgment, what kinds of decisions

are best to make when we're stressed, and how to keep your cool when faced with a choice

and the pressures on.

This can be good for decisions that are threatening.

It is intended to help us detect threat and run away from that threat or fight that threat.

So under threat, under stress, when you need to make a decision that has to deal with,

is this going to be a loss, is this going to be bad for me, then we can be really good.

But we need to remember that we're going to be more tuned into the negatives or the threat

of the situation and maybe not as in tune to the positives that are going to come out

of it.

We stereotype, you know, we focus on the thing that's more recent than the earlier thing

that might be better for us.

And so if there's something that you're really worried or nervous about, stress is

amping up that threat mode in you.

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