Dec. 12, 2023

119. Best Of: How to Embrace the Benefits of Stress

119. Best Of: How to Embrace the Benefits of Stress

Channel stress to help your performance and relationships. "Learning how to embrace it, learning how to work with it is really what helps us thrive and grow and perform at our highest level," shares Alia Crum.

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“Stress is natural,” says Alia Crum, an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford. “Stress is inevitable when you’re living a life that’s connected with things you care about. And learning how to embrace it, learning how to work with it is really what helps us thrive and grow and perform at our highest level.”

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, lecturer and podcast host Matt Abrahams talks with Crum about her work as the principal investigator at the Stanford Mind & Body Lab, where she is studying how people can benefit from stress. “There’s a whole side of stress that shows that it can have enhancing qualities on our cognitive functioning, our physical health, and on how we behave and interact with others,” she says.

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Alia Crum

Associate Professor of Psychology at Stanford University