The Upside of Stress Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

Kelly McGonigal in her book called The Upside of Stress talks about how we can deal with more stress when we experience purpose. We can deal with more stress when we have a clear intention.

There's a book called The Upside of Stress. And in it, the researcher talks about her name is Kelly McGonigal. And she talks about how when we feel purpose behind something, when we find meaning behind something, we can keep going and take on more stress and pressure than we ever have had in our lives.

I remember I was reading The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal and she was talking about how actually when we're doing something meaningful, we can take on more stress and we can deal with more pain when we feel connected or mission or meaning.

Before that she wrote the willpower instinct and the upside of stress.

Her books include the willpower instinct, the upside of stress and she's got a new book called The Joy of Movement which is about exercise and so we're going to talk to her not only about how to get your exercise game improved in a way that will actually succeed and without involving you beating yourself up along the way.

Previous books include the willpower instinct and the upside of stress.

I really enjoyed this book and I thought it was very useful because it did change the way that I think about stress, which is kind of a big deal considering that stress is the guiding pillar in my life much of the time.

I wish I'd read this book 20 years ago.

the crux of the entire book or at least the first half of the book

the subtitle is why stress is good for you and what I always say is it's not that stress is good for you, it's that stress can bring out what is good in you or stress can also bring out what is good in communities.

it's a matter of what I think of sort of strategic attentional deployment yeah and the story that you're going to tell yourself particularly in moments where the stress is not so easy as like turning it off.

I really enjoyed this book and I thought it was very useful because it did change the way that I think about stress, which is kind of a big deal considering that stress is the guiding pillar in my life much of the time.

I wish I'd read this book 20 years ago.

again I really enjoyed this book and I thought it was very useful because it did change the way that I think about stress, which is kind of a big deal considering that stress is the guiding pillar in my life much of the time.

the subtitle is why stress is good for you and what I always say is it's not that stress is good for you it's that stress can bring out what is good in you or stress can also bring out what is good in communities and that's really where I'm trying to get people to point their attention not that like suffering is good for you.

the stress mindset effect and how we can control this because this is I mean that's the crux of the entire book or at least the first half of the book.

I really enjoyed this book and I thought it was very useful because it did change the way that I think about stress, which is kind of a big deal considering that stress is the guiding pillar in my life much of the time.

I wish I'd read this book 20 years ago.

it did change the way that I think about stress which is kind of a big deal considering that stress is the guiding pillar in my life much of the time with a nine month old kid in the middle of a pandemic and running a business.

the subtitle is why stress is good for you and what I always say is it's not that stress is good for you it's that stress can bring out what is good in you or stress can also bring out what is good in communities and that's really where I'm trying to get people to point their attention not that like suffering is good for you.

the title of the book we did for the show today was the upside of stress why stress is good for you and how to get good at it