A 2010 study found that the small portion of Americans who view stress as facilitative have a 43 percent lower chance of premature death than those who view stress as destructive. The obvious explanation, or course, is that the people with a positive outlook toward stress developed that mindset because they didn’t experience stress very often. That is, if you’re never feeling stressed, then of course you would think that stress isn’t so bad. But when the researchers compared the total number of stressful events that each group experienced, they were shocked to discover that the number was
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