Modern happiness scientists are still standing on the shoulders of some pretty old school giants. Medupé Akinola is a professor at the Columbia Business School and an expert on stress. She says we can reframe our stress as something that actually helps us. It's often your mindset about stress that can influence the extent to which it can have harmful or helpful effects.
We’re all familiar with the ways that stress can make us feel bad. But professor and stress expert Modupe Akinola argues that a simple change in our mindset can turn short-term stress into a helpful resource. Modupe walks us through some strategies for how to better tolerate and understand our stress, and gives us tools for coping when a small “mindset shift” isn’t enough.
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