Dr. Alia Crum

The second step is to welcome it because inherently in that stress is something you care about.

And then the third step is to utilize the stress response to achieve the thing you care about.

Not spend your time, money, effort, energy trying to get rid of the stress.

Does that make sense?

Right.

Treat yourself like a scientist.

Look at your life.

Look at your mindsets.

See what's serving you.

See what isn't.

Find more useful, adaptive, and empowering mindsets and live by those.

The guiding light for me has been

an undercurrent of understanding that our mindsets matter.

I think I got that very clearly and deeply as a child, both through my experiences as an athlete.

You know, I know many of your listeners are athletes.

Any athlete knows that you can be the same physical being from one day to the next, one moment to the next, and perform completely differently just depending on what you're thinking.

I was a gymnast growing up.

And if you can't visualize, if you can't see something in your mind, you have no chance when you get up there on the balance beam, right?

And I also, my father was a martial artist, a teacher of meditation.

So this kind of mind-body work was baked into me from an early age.