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    Stress: The Owner's Manual
    Stress: The Owner's Manual
    Stress: The Owner's Manual
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    Stress: The Owner's Manual

    By Pierce Howard

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    Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated

    At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual—until now. In this unsurpassed resource, Dr. Pierce J. Howard and his team distill the very latest research and clearly explain the practical, real-world applications to our daily lives. Drawing from the frontiers of psychology, neurobiology, and cognitive science, yet organized and written for maximum usability, The Owner's Manual for the Brain, Fourth Edition, is your comprehensive guide to optimum mental performance and well-being. It should be on every thinking person's bookshelf.

    • What are the ingredients of happiness?
    • Which are the best remedies for headaches and migraines?
    • How can we master creativity, focus, decision making, and willpower?
    • What are the best brain foods?
    • How is it possible to boost memory and intelligence?
    • What is the secret to getting a good night's sleep?
    • How can you positively manage depression, anxiety, addiction, and other disorders?
    • What is the impact of nutrition, stress, and exercise on the brain?
    • Is personality hard-wired or fluid?
    • What are the best strategies when recovering from trauma and loss?
    • How do moods and emotions interact?
    • What is the ideal learning environment for children?
    • How do love, humor, music, friendship, and nature contribute to well-being?
    • Are there ways of reducing negative traits such as aggression, short-temperedness, or irritability?
    • What is the recommended treatment for concussions?
    • Can you delay or prevent Alzheimer's and dementia?
    • What are the most important ingredients to a successful marriage and family?
    • What do the world's most effective managers know about leadership, motivation, and persuasion?
    • Plus 1,000s more topics!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9780062357687
    Stress: The Owner's Manual
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    Pierce Howard

    Pierce J. Howard, Ph.D., is director of research and development for the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies in Charlotte, North Carolina. Since the first edition of The Owner's Manual for the Brain was published in 1994, Dr. Howard has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and conducted countless seminars around the world. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the International Test Commission.

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      Stress - Pierce Howard

      Contents

      A Note to the Reader

      Stress and Burnout: The Unrelenting Fire Alarm

      1 The Anatomy of Stress

      2 Stress and Arousal

      3 Type A Research

      4 Burnout: Maximum Demotivation

      5 Trait Dissonance

      6 Stress and Evolution

      7 Stress Doesn’t Affect Everyone in the Same Way

      The Author

      Credits

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      A Note to the Reader

      Please note that all topic numbers and cross-references refer to those in the larger work.

      Stress and Burnout

      Emotion, as we defined it in the last chapter, is action resulting from situations that enhance or threaten a goal. When one’s goal is substantially obstructed, the specific emotion that results is stress. The greater or more threatening the obstruction, the higher the stress. Stress that is sustained—either low-level stress over a long period or high-level stress over a shorter time—leads to burnout, which is, at its most extreme, the inability to feel any emotion at all, a total loss of motivation.

      When one senses that one’s goal is being blocked, the something that serves as the obstacle is called a stressor. Put another way, stress occurs when the body’s normal homeostasis has been disturbed (Sapolsky, 1994). Stressors can be anything from fear-arousing enemies to anxiety-arousing fantasies, from flat tires that prevent you from getting to your child’s soccer game, to invitations to go on a much desired date or other social outing when you must complete an assignment with an imminent deadline. Stressors are not intrinsically good things or bad things—they simply get in the way of working toward your goal. The more important the goal and the more potent the stressor, the greater the felt stress. The stress itself is an emotion, or rather typically a blend of emotions. As you recall, earlier we defined emotions as feedback that we’re proceeding on target toward our goal (positive emotions), or that we’re being obstructed with respect to our goal (negative emotions). However, inasmuch as stressors can be joyful as well as saddening, the emotion of stress itself can include both positive and negative emotions in one blend. For example, the emotional stress you feel when your grandchild comes to visit when you’ve much work to do—joy mixed with resentment and dread.

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