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Stress for Success Brainhack: Mom-M.D. Harvard Trained Educator #parenting #resilience #podcast

17 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A Harvard-trained doctor and educator explains how reframing stress as a signal of meaningful challenge, rather than something to eliminate, helps people perform better. When you're competing at high levels, stress is inevitable and necessary. Without it, there would be no distinction or motivation.

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Resilience comes in with the knowledge that you can adjust your perspective of the stress, whether it's physical or mental, and that you have tools to use that can actually deal with this stress. So let's reframe stress again. If you're competing at the highest level, whether it's getting into the top school or playing in sports or music or whatever performance, um, job performance, it gets uncomfortable and it gets stressful. Because if it didn't, then everybody would be doing it. Everybody would be at the top. Nobody would be distinguished, and there would be nothing really to strive for.