Learning that stress helps you makes it help you:
- In the Rethinking Stress paper one group heard that stress is negative and should be avoided. Another heard that stress improves health and vitality. Both sets of facts are true
- On hard tasks the "stress is bad" group did not improve at all
- The "stress is good" group improved significantly, and improved on easy tasks too
- No training, no practice, no drills in between. They just heard the tutorial
Your understanding of what stress does decides which direction your physiology goes.
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