Meaning is a jumper that you have to knit yourself.

Why do our bodies sometimes react in certain situations with a threat response (fight or flight) and in others with a challenge response?It seems to boil down to our inner belief of being able to handle the situation or not. If we think we can deal with it - challenge response. Otherwise - threat response.

Threat vs challenge responses

Positive stress can be referred to as eustress, while negative stress can be referred to as distress. However, things are not quite as black-and-white as they seem.When we are faced with stress, we may either react with a threat response, or with a challenge response. The first one occurs when in danger, such as when being chased by a predator, while the latter occurs when presented with a difficult task, such as when chasing prey.While the threat response can be detrimental to your body, the challenge response has been shown to be beneficial, improving blood flow to the brain and even the ability to learn.

Eustress vs distress

A 40-year-long study shows that people who experienced a moderate (4-7) amount of traumatic events rated their life satisfaction the highest.One may conclude that stressful events alone are not enough to deteriorate us and the meaning we assign to those events matters.Stressing about stress is meaningless, driving us towards a downwards spiral, while, for example, stressing about raising a child is meaningful.

Meaningful stress is challenging stress

In 2015, Nasa sent Scott Kelly to space and left Mark Kelly, his twin brother, on Earth. The experiment helped them determine that, due to the lack of stress on the skeleton, a person loses ~1% of their bone density after one month in space. For comparison, an average person aged 65 and older loses that 1% over the course of a year.

Losing bone density in space

Is stress good for you? Even better than good for you might stress be the thing that makes you stronger both mentally and physically? Music Lemming - encounter (BGM) https://youtu.be/xdwWCl_5x2s Curious tangents 3 by Falland music https://youtube.com/channel/UCndPlvkd6VlDzINF5BrW_Zw A lot of new research has been done in the field of stress especially by Kelly McGonigal. Being stressed out or being afraid of taking on new challenges because of stress is becoming a major problem. but, should it be the way we cope with stress? or should we embrace stress and seek a challenging response? Videos you may also like Mark Manson https://youtu.be/DSmMX8JbOFs Kelly McGonigal TED talk https://youtu.be/RcGyVTAoXEU The science of stress https://youtu.be/fPnDaRYXHs4 Follow me! Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/CuriousTangents Inbox squad -https://inboxsquad.co/curioustangents Discord - https://discord.gg/F8xds2B Twitter - https://www.instagram.com/travisoctav... https://www.instagram.com/travisoctav... use this for extra free weeks at the great courses https://thegreatcoursesplus.7eer.net/... 765362 Similar video - https://youtu.be/n2EVEYmeSqg Could ADHD be an evolutionary advantage? https://youtu.be/cyt3DCI5J68 My YouTube Studio set up My budget camera - canon m50 https://amzn.to/36I9eek The best mirrorless camera - Canon EOS R https://amzn.to/2FifBK8 Lens Sigma 16mm F1.4- I Love this thing! https://amzn.to/34ScgKC My editing software- adobe premiere +Rush (simplest tool in the world) Premiere-https://amzn.to/33HDns9 Rush-https://amzn.to/2FaKhg6 Books I just really like and think everyone should read The Self Educator Booklist-https://kit.co/TravisoGilbert/the-ess... Follow me and subscribe! https://www.instagram.com/travisoctav... https://twitter.com/TravisoGilbert audible:http://www.audibletrack.com/curious sources + further reading Kelly McGonigal - The Upside of Stress Dawans, B.V., Ditzen, B., Trueg, A., Fischbacher, U., & Heinrichs, M. (2019). Effects of acute stress on social behavior in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 99, 137-144. Seery, M., Leo, R.J., Lupien, S.P., Kondrak, C.L., & Almonte, J.L. (2013). An upside to adversity?: moderate cumulative lifetime adversity is associated with resilient responses in the face of controlled stressors. Psychological science, 24 7, 1181-9 . Park, Daeun & Yu, Alisa & Metz, Sarah & Tsukayama, Eli & Crum, Alia & Duckworth, Angela. (2017). Beliefs About Stress Attenuate the Relation Among Adverse Life Events, Perceived Distress, and Self‐Control. Child Development. 89. 10.1111/cdev.12946. Jamieson, Jeremy & Nock, Matthew & Mendes, Wendy. (2011). Mind Over Matter: Reappraising Arousal Improves Cardiovascular and Cognitive Responses to Stress. Journal of experimental psychology. General. 141. 417-22. 10.1037/a0025719. P.R. Blankenhorn, in Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology, 2001++ Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman - Stress, Appraisal, and Coping Taylor SE, Klein LC, Lewis BP, Gruenewald TL, Gurung RA, Updegraff JA. Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: tend-and-befriend, not fight-or-flight. Psychol Rev. 2000 Jul;107(3):411-29. doi: 10.1037/0033-295x.107.3.411. PMID: 10941275.

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Is stress good for you? Even better than good for you might stress be the thing that makes you stronger both mentally and physically?
Music 
Lemming - encounter (BGM)
https://youtu.be/xdwWCl_5x2s
Curious tangents 3 by Falland music https://youtube.com/channel/UCndPlvkd6VlDzINF5BrW_Zw

A lot of new research has been done in the field of stress especially by Kelly McGonigal. Being stressed out or being afraid of taking on new challenges because of stress is becoming a major problem. but, should it be the way we cope with stress? or should we embrace stress and seek a challenging response?


Videos you may also like
Mark Manson https://youtu.be/DSmMX8JbOFs
Kelly McGonigal TED talk https://youtu.be/RcGyVTAoXEU
The science of stress https://youtu.be/fPnDaRYXHs4

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Similar video - https://youtu.be/n2EVEYmeSqg Could ADHD be an evolutionary advantage?
https://youtu.be/cyt3DCI5J68
My YouTube Studio set up
My budget camera - canon m50 
https://amzn.to/36I9eek
The best mirrorless camera - Canon EOS R
https://amzn.to/2FifBK8
Lens Sigma 16mm F1.4- I Love this thing!
https://amzn.to/34ScgKC
My editing software- adobe premiere +Rush (simplest tool in the world)
Premiere-https://amzn.to/33HDns9
Rush-https://amzn.to/2FaKhg6

Books I just really like and think everyone should read
The Self Educator Booklist-https://kit.co/TravisoGilbert/the-ess...
Follow me and subscribe!
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https://twitter.com/TravisoGilbert
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sources + further reading 

Kelly McGonigal - The Upside of Stress

Dawans, B.V., Ditzen, B., Trueg, A., Fischbacher, U., & Heinrichs, M. (2019). Effects of acute stress on social behavior in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 99, 137-144.

Seery, M., Leo, R.J., Lupien, S.P., Kondrak, C.L., & Almonte, J.L. (2013). An upside to adversity?: moderate cumulative lifetime adversity is associated with resilient responses in the face of controlled stressors. Psychological science, 24 7, 1181-9 .

Park, Daeun & Yu, Alisa & Metz, Sarah & Tsukayama, Eli & Crum, Alia & Duckworth, Angela. (2017). Beliefs About Stress Attenuate the Relation Among Adverse Life Events, Perceived Distress, and Self‐Control. Child Development. 89. 10.1111/cdev.12946.

Jamieson, Jeremy & Nock, Matthew & Mendes, Wendy. (2011). Mind Over Matter: Reappraising Arousal Improves Cardiovascular and Cognitive Responses to Stress. Journal of experimental psychology. General. 141. 417-22. 10.1037/a0025719.


P.R. Blankenhorn, in Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology, 2001++
Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman - Stress, Appraisal, and Coping

Taylor SE, Klein LC, Lewis BP, Gruenewald TL, Gurung RA, Updegraff JA. Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: tend-and-befriend, not fight-or-flight. Psychol Rev. 2000 Jul;107(3):411-29. doi: 10.1037/0033-295x.107.3.411. PMID: 10941275.

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