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The upside of stress : why stress is good for you, and how to get good at it / Kelly McGonigal, Ph. D.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Avery, a member of Penguin Random House, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xxiii, 279 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1583335617
  • 9781583335611
  • 1583335897
  • 9781583335895
Other title:
  • Why stress is good for you, and how to get good at it
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 155.9042 23
LOC classification:
  • BF575.S75 M394 2015
Contents:
Part 1. Rethink stress -- 1. How to change your mind about stress -- 2. Beyond fight-or-flight -- 3. A meaningful life is a stressful life -- Part 2. Transform stress: what does it mean to be good at stress? -- 4. Engage: how anxiety helps you rise to the challenge -- 5. Connect: how caring creates resilience -- 6. Grow: how adversity makes you stronger -- 7. Final reflections.
Summary: "The author of The Willpower Instinct delivers a controversial and groundbreaking new book that overturns long-held beliefs about stress. More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Stanford psychologist and bestselling author Kelly McGonigal, Ph. D., delivers a startling message: Stress isn't bad. In The Upside of Stress, McGonigal highlights new research indicating that stress can, in fact, make us stronger, smarter, and happier - if we learn how to embrace it. 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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Rethink stress -- 1. How to change your mind about stress -- 2. Beyond fight-or-flight -- 3. A meaningful life is a stressful life -- Part 2. Transform stress: what does it mean to be good at stress? -- 4. Engage: how anxiety helps you rise to the challenge -- 5. Connect: how caring creates resilience -- 6. Grow: how adversity makes you stronger -- 7. Final reflections.

"The author of The Willpower Instinct delivers a controversial and groundbreaking new book that overturns long-held beliefs about stress. More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Stanford psychologist and bestselling author Kelly McGonigal, Ph. D., delivers a startling message: Stress isn't bad. In The Upside of Stress, McGonigal highlights new research indicating that stress can, in fact, make us stronger, smarter, and happier - if we learn how to embrace it. 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."-- Provided by publisher.

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