word. This is an unfortunate and costly bias that is difficult to overcome. Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is a health psychologist at Stanford University. For many years, like every other health psychologist, she worked tirelessly to help people avoid stress. Her outlook was this: Stress is bad and her job was to figure out how people could minimize its negative impact. But then she came across research that blew her mind. 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.
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