The Future of Stress: Use It or Lose It?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: Stress has been defined as a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances – or as the non-specific response of the body to any demand for change. In her verywellmind.com article, When Stress Is Actually Good for You, Elizabeth Scott, MS, observes, “We rarely hear people say, ‘I’m really feeling stressed. Isn't that great?’ But if we didn't have some stress in our lives—the ‘good stress’ variety—we'd feel rudderless and unhappy. If we define stress as anything that alters our homeostasis, then good stress, in its many forms, is vital for a healthy life. Bad stress can even turn into good stress, and vice versa.” With ‘good stress’, our pulse quickens, hormones surge…it keeps us feeling excited about life. Adrenaline junkies know that too much good stress can become bad. Acute or ‘bad stress’ comes from quick surprises that need a response. Chronic stress comes from repeated stressors that feel inescapable and can result in negative physical and emotional health effects. Big questions: Is technology a major chronic stressor? Should you avoid all stress? Will talking about stress in the workplace increase employee engagement? If we talk with our children about stress, will we help them cope better as adults? Can we learn balanced responses to stress that will toughen our resilience to whatever life throws at us? We’ll ask Colonel Deb Lewis, Alexey Katko, Marcia Daszko and Doug Krug for their take on The Future of Stress: Use It Or Lose It?

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.5	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:30.6	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:34.6	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:36.0	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:38.3	Welcome, welcome, welcome. If those of you have been listening for years know the key, Bonnie D. Graham. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:40.6	If those of you have been listening for years know the key,
0:43.4	the number of welcomes is the number of guests I have.
0:44.7	And we have a very interesting show.
0:47.3	I will tell my audience, we're trying to live stream.
0:50.1	It hasn't worked so far, but I'm under a lot of stress today.
0:51.1	And guess what?
0:53.1	That's the topic of the show.
0:57.6	Is stress good? Is stress chronic? Is stress acute? Do we need stress? Is stress good for us? Are we happy with stress? Are we mad at stress? Should we use it?
1:02.5	Harness it? Lose it. Is it to our advantage? Can we be better employees if we deal with stress
1:07.1	better in the workplace? Can we be better adults, better parents if we help our children
1:11.5	learn? What stress is, how to use it, when to harness it. I was told very early on at a piano
1:16.6	recital, don't worry if you're nervous, it's good. It will make you perform better. I was told when I
1:22.4	started stand-up comedy, don't medicate, don't get drunk before you go on stage in front of the audience
1:28.3	at Carolines in New York. Just use it to your advantage. Stress is good. So here we are,
1:34.9	and we're going to talk about that today. Let me give a quick quote. Here we go. I have a quote
1:38.6	from an article called When Stress is actually good for you from very well-mined.com. The author is Elizabeth Scott MS. She says,
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