IT’S NOT THE STRESS YOU FEEL, IT’S THE STRESS YOU AVOID - Kelly McGonigal, PhD on rewiring your brain live with, learn from, and even appreciate stress
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You Can't Over Interpret Life as Meaningful
When people try to avoid stress the type of stress you can actually avoid. You cannot avoid a lot of the stuff we really don't want like getting sick right? So when most people are trying to avoid stress they're avoiding things that are in their control but also related to the things that are really important to them, he says. He gives an example for his own life where he was so afraid of flying and it just started showing up in his dreams. The fear was still there it was showing up in my dreams and I was missing out on all these meaningful opportunities,. "I feel like there's a really big deal for me to say okay well I don't know if I'm ever
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