Kelly McGonigal

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The School of Greatness · The Real Reason Stress Is Hurting You | Kelly McGonigal · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

And maybe even something good about stress worth embracing so that your mindset could help you harness some of your personal strengths, help you harness the strength in your community to get some positive outcomes we maybe don't usually associate with stress.

So I think I'm trying to shy away from the idea that like stress isn't bad unless you believe it is, which is sometimes how my work gets summarized.

That's not the case.

I mean, like you said, I'm a scientist, so I understand data.

Stress is a paradox.

Stress is not something that we often get to choose.

So it's not like even if you had a wishlist and you could say, I want this much stress and this type of stress, it's not like we have that opportunity.

So what I'm really interested in is this idea that we now call it the stress mindset effect, that there are ways of thinking about stress that can make your body's response to stress healthier and

that can change what happens in your brain in moments of stress that make you braver, more resilient, more willing to accept help from others.

And that these mindsets basically change the trajectory of how stress affects you.

That's the big idea that I hope to share with people.

Yeah.

No such thing as good stress or bad stress.

I want to say that is again, another, I think a big misconception around stress because, you know, people will say things like, Oh, good stress.

It's like the stress of getting a promotion or the stress of winning the lottery or the stress of doing something really exciting that you're good at.

You're like, that's good stress.

Bad stress is all the stuff we don't want.

It's the pain.

It's the suffering.

It's the loss.

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