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#316 Stress Tolerance

Squiggly Careers

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Gabble Matty: I feel like you have got into some hardcore academic worlds during the series. Optimal performance, conscious learning and effective decision making are most likely to occur at moderate stress levels. There's enough stress activation to keep us alert and focused, but not enough to enter our distress zone. If we had moderate stress continually day in, day out, which might feel tolerable and copable with, I wonder whether Gabble Matty would argue that will be detrimental over a three month period or over a year period. So did what you just described to me make sense and did I recognize it?

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