Question

After reading Chapter 10, watch the following video:
TEDGlobal 2013. (Producer). (2013). Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend [Video file].
Available at https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Then, discuss the following questions to the best of your abilities:

What is stress?

How can you manage it? How can you make stress your friend?

Discuss two situations in which stress can affect our professional lives.

Name five events that, according to psychologists T.H. Holmes and R.H. Rahe, are likely to cause stress.

Book: Keys to Success Quick by Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, Sarah Lyman Karvirts

Answer 1

Stress refers to the response of the body in the critical situation or threat. It may be in reality or imagination. Body increase it’s alertness in the stress situation. This phenomenon is known as flute and fight response or stress response.

We can manage our stress by replacing negative stress on the positive stress in order to decrease the side effects of it. Positive stress can help us by increasing concentration, focus and alertness.

We can make stress a friend by taking it positively. Limited level of stress is acceptable but the higher level of stress may cause a harmful effect on people.

An elevated level of stress may affect the professional life because it reduces concentration, focus and workability.

Stress also decreased our communication skills and shift our mood. Due to it, we can't ’t complete our task Ina effective manner.

Four events that may cause stress are given below along with their scores:

1. Spouse or child’s death: 100

2. The breaking of marriage 73

3. The detachment of spouse: 65

4. Punishments like jail: 63

5. Close relatives: 63

6. Severe disease:53