I think this study is important because it states very plainly that stress is bad for you, and there's no such thing as "good stress."
Edit: Wow you all really like your stress huh?
Edit: Wow you all really like your stress huh?
If you are permant stressing about your job, your life your mortage and you boulder for the first time, you might eperience mortal fear, from falling. Which makes the other stressors less substantial, thus "deactivating" or back-queuing them. After the fear for your life, the stress bodily reflex does not return usually in full force.
You relax. One good "short" stress ended alot of bad stress. There is no good stressor that is permanent.
PS: Thanks to the prof at college teaching us about this. Stress is pure poison, inlcuding flooding your body with cortisols and supressing disease symptoms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol#Immune_response
Resulting in the ilusion, that stress keeps you healthy. Meanwhile disease eats you alive and re-appears once you are a wreck.
If you regularly experience stress episodes for months and years, you might as well be a living corpse.
Or we could mass give out calming substances like weed or alcohol, but now we get to were we actually categorize permanent stress correctly. Its a mass applied substance problem, used to extract value from people.
this is not true though. I have a close friend who comes from a very wealthy family, to the point where, if he wants to, he doesn't have to work another day in his life. it took him something like eight years to get a four-year degree. he's struggled a lot with motivation over the years, and I became increasingly empathetic toward his situation the more I talked to him about it. it's really hard to find motivation to do stuff, even stuff you tell yourself you want to do, if it takes effort, and if there's no proverbial "fire lit under your ass" to get you to actually do something ("if I don't get another job before the end of next month, I won't have enough money to pay rent", etc.).
I've done some of my best creative work while under immense stress. great things rarely, if ever, get created in zero-stress environments. this idea that stress is always objectively bad is a very first-world way of thinking.
Stress is objectively bad for your health. That's a different statement from "in certain cases I need to compromise my heath for a greater good."
I never said anything about a "greater good", but I don't disagree that stress is objectively bad for your health, to some degree. but it's a tradeoff you have to make if you want to succeed. before our modern first-world society of wealth and safety, this was obvious to everyone, but it seems as though we've forgotten it. nobody is "owed" or "has a fundamental right" (or whatever) to living a stress-free life. life is a struggle, a competition, a game where there are winners and losers, and you have to do what you can to "win." this is just the immutable nature of… well, nature itself.
> If you could do creative work while not under stress that would be better.
that would be nice, but that's just not how it works for 99.99% of people!
It says "volatile pay is stressful in a bad way" but makes no claim about stress as a whole?
Not about "stress in a bad way" as opposed to some "good stress".