A short YouTube transcript excerpt (speaker: James Laughlin) explaining that not all stress is harmful—distinguishing eustress (helpful, performance-enhancing) from distress, giving a stage-speaking example, and noting that stress is a biological response intended to keep us safe.
There is good stress. Like, we have eustress and we have distress is what we call the reverse of that. And good stress is basically, you know, it's meant to make us perform better. It's the kind of stress that goes on and off. Like when you want to go and speak on stage and you get a bit, like, stressed before, and then you get on stage, you do your talk, and then afterwards all the relief happens and you go back into parasympathetic state. But stress in general is a biological response. It's just made to keep us safe.
