Crack Under Pressure

Tighten In Your Chest

stress

frog

dad joke

indian

teepee

tailor

laughter

trivia

fidget spinner

therapy

labrador

anxiety

insomnia

sleeplessness

one-liner

nonsense question

academia

academics

Netflix

crayon

drinking

wine

yoga

relaxing

There's a word for that

dissertation writing

graduate student

graduate study

job search

academic job market

coffee

bad attitude

cunnilingus

female orgasm

anticipation

water fountain

work

modernity

nostalgia

is a physiological system that has evolved for responding to short-term acute physical emergencies. In modern life we so often turn on this emergency system for months on end worrying about mortgages, relationships, and promotions, resulting in a multitude of stress-related diseases.

This is the critical point of this book: if you are that zebra running for your life, or that lion sprinting for your meal, your body's physiological response mechanisms are superbly adapted for dealing with such short-term physical emergencies. When we sit around and worry about stressful things, we turn on the same physiological responses-but they are potentially a disaster when provoked chronically. A large body of evidence suggests that stress-related disease emerges, predominantly out of the fact that we so often activate a physiological system that has evolved for responding to acute physical emergencies, but we turn it on for months on end worrying about mortgages, relationships, and promotions. (Sapolsky 'why do zebras' .pdf)

is like an iceberg. We can see one-eighth of it above, but what about what's below'.

Stress is like an iceberg. We can see one-eighth of it above, but what about what's below'

is that against which our greatest weapon is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

is a response originally meant to keep us alive, now it makes us want to do the exact opposite.

Stress was a response meant to keep us alive, now it makes us want to do the exact opposite.

 wouldn't be so hard to take if it were chocolate-covered.

Stress wouldn't be so hard to take if it were chocolate-covered.

is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.

Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.

is what comes when one keeps one's work on one's mind rather than keeping one's mind on one's work.

He who keeps his mind on his work, gets ahead; he who keeps his work on his mind, gets an ulcer.

is a collective term for the insults a body must endure when thrust into a less-than-congenial predicament; e .g., overwork, unemployment, a shopping mall in December or a vacation with one's in-laws.

Collective term for the insults a body must endure when thrust into a less-than-congenial predicament; e .g., overwork, unemployment, a shopping mall in December or a vacation with one's in-laws. An effective antidote to the increased life expectancy made possible by recent advances in medical science.

stress, n.All

stress