One fascinating thing about stress is how our mindset and attitude towards it can change its impact on us.
The two types of mindsets towards stress are enhancing and debilitating.
Our mindset about stress can influence its harmful or helpful effects.
A stress is enhancing mindset can lead to better outcomes.
Introducing a mindset shift can help improve performance in different contexts.
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.