Huberman Lab Clips(@HLPClips):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. @hubermanlab

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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. @hubermanlab