Chinese version of this book named <自控力-和压力做朋友>. The author Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University, and a leading expert on the mind-body relationship. She teaches for the School of Medicine's Health Improvement Program and is a senior teacher/consultant for the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. Her work demonstrates the applications of psychological science to personal health and happiness, as well as organizational success and social change.
The Upside of Stress is the first book to bring together cutting-edge discoveries on the correlation between resilience—the human capacity for stress-related growth—and mind-set, the power of beliefs to shape reality. It is not a guide to get rid of stress, but a guide to get better at stress, by understanding it, embracing it, and using it.McGonigal combines science, stories, and exercises into an engaging and practical book that is both entertaining and life-changing, showing us:
How to cultivate a mind-set to embrace stress?
How stress can provide focus and energy?
How stress can help people connect and strengthen close relationships?
why our brain is built to learn from stress, and how to increase its ability to learn from challenging experiences?
It consists of two parts, rethink stress and transform stress. What I learnt from the book?
Firstly, positive thinking about stress.
We all heard that stress is bad to our body and causes disease. But McGonigal told us, it is harmful when we think of it as harmful. It sounds like coming from our mind. If our subconscious take stress as a threaten to health, then it would hurt us. On the contrary, it wouldn't . Our thoughts decide the result. In that case, based on the author's research, positive thinking about stress is the right choice to face stress.
Secondly, stress is not harmful, but helpful.
As a competitor for almost 10 years, I experienced a lot of stress through the whole contest process. No appetite, no good sleep, no mood, mum always say you are too stressful, stop joining contest. But I always know that also because of stress, I became more focus and energy. When it comes to stage, stress leads to better performance. Otherwise, I may lack of passion and excitement, it wouldn't influence the audiences at all.
Thirdly, adversity makes us stronger.
We all have adversity for living years in the earth. Before I hate the difficulties and setbacks I had, reading this book help me full of gratefull for everything I experienced, like failing in college entrance exam, failing twice in post-graduate entrance exam, no job for a month etc. All the failures I had made me who I am today. What doesn't kill me make me stronger!
It's not easy to read this book in English, because of terminology related to phychology and biology. While, no matter what, this is indeed a practical and meaningful book to deal with stress, which everyone of us has to face with. If you were interested in knowing more about stress, highly recommend this book, I'm sure you'll see a different side of it.
Get ready to stop stressing about stress!
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