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{ Sunday, January 9, 2005 }

Eustress

I found the word "eustress" on a page from an online book or workshop about Stress Management page by a professor named Wes Sime, whom I was reading about in Steven Johnson's book Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life. He distinguishes two kinds of stress:

• Eustress = Positive exhilarating challenging experiences of success followed by higher expectations
• Distress = Disappointment, failure, threat, embarrassment and other negative experiences

Didn't know this word existed. Useful distinction.

LINK | 4:28 PM | TB

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