Stress and anxiety are a state-demand mismatch: Too tired to do what you have to do feels bad. Too stressed to do it feels the same way. Tired when you need to sleep feels good. Wide awake when you need to sleep does not. Stressed, anxious, worried are labels you put on one thing: your internal state isn't matching the demands placed on you. So the question isn't which emotion you're in. It's whether the state fits the demand, and which one of the two you're going to change. @hubermanlab

Stress is anabolic when you believe it helps you: - Chronic stress and chronically elevated cortisol do reduce testosterone and estrogen, diminish sleep and immunity - But when you're informed that stress enhances performance, it becomes anabolic - It drives deployment of androgens and estrogens instead of draining them - It also supports cortisol regulation in a way that sharpens your cognition Same stress. Different belief. Different hormonal outcome. @hubermanlab

stress isn’t always a bad thing, but getting close to redlining wanted to take a break after the world series of poker but the markets just got so hot, had to lock in will work on coming back to more restorative time in the upcoming days mental health is wealth

Stress states collapse to Mohr circles on the σₙ–σₛ plane. - Hydrostatic pressure appears as a lone point; - Uniaxial compression or tension yields a single circle rooted at the origin; - Confined axial and triaxial fields generate nested circles whose diameters equal principal differences; - Pure shear centers at zero mean stress; - Differential stress is simply σ₁ − σ₃; - Pore pressure p_f shifts every circle leftward to give effective stress. Principal matrices sit beside each plot. From the same constructions, tectonicists forecast crustal faults and mining engineers gauge tunnel stability.

Stress in one of the credit market's riskiest areas is intensifying: Collateralized loan obligation (CLO) equity tranches returned -15% in Q1 2026, their worst quarterly performance since the 2020 pandemic crash. These tranches represent the highest-risk layer of the $1.3 trillion CLO market, with equity investors taking the first losses when underlying loans underperform. This also marks the 2nd consecutive quarterly loss and even exceeds the Q2 2022 bear market drop of -12%. The selloff has been driven by a decline in software loan prices combined with fewer new corporate loans being issued. This leaves CLO managers, the firms responsible for selecting the loans inside CLO portfolios, with fewer opportunities to invest in attractive assets, putting further pressure on returns. Credit market stress is rising beneath the surface.