myAIPMMindset Matters: How to Embrace the Benefits of Stress (podcast)
Matt Abrahams & Alia Crum (2021) | Stanford Business
Matt Abrahams speaks with Alia Crum about stress and how we appraise or think about the stressor and our ability to handle it. Do you view a conflict, a challenging situation, an important presentation, or an important meeting as a threat? Do you have the resources to overcome the challenge? Most people have the mindset that stressful situations are inherently debilitating. When you look at the truth about stress, which is like most things very complicated, you realise that that is a simplified assumption. In fact, looking at the minds and the bodies response to stress reveals that it was not designed to be debilitating but to enhance our performance and behaviour to meet the demands we’re facing. By looking at how our mindset shapes the way we respond to stressful situation, we can get people to open their minds to this notion that stress can be enhancing. Stress can help us rise to a new level of understanding, can deepen your connection with others, can make us even physiologically grow tougher and stronger. Having that focus shifts our attention and behaviours in ways that make mindset truer.
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Abrahams, M. & Crum, A. (2021) Mindset Matters: How to Embrace the Benefits of Stress (podcast). Stanford Business.https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/mindset-matters-how-embrace-benefits-stress