Kelly McGonigal

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

Endocannabinoids enhance your comfort and your pleasure from all of those activities.

So think about it.

That is the neural signature of exercise is to set you up to be a more social version of yourself

a more optimistic version of yourself.

I just like, that's one of the reasons why it's so good for depression.

Races, training for events, coaching.

I know I see this all the time.

And it's funny the way you were describing the role that sports played for you when you were young.

That's how I ended up teaching group exercise and yoga is I had that same experience coming to graduate school.

My first year as a graduate student, I had some big setbacks, made a bunch of mistakes, thought about dropping out, felt like a total failure, inadequate, don't belong here.

But I started teaching yoga and dance through the aerobics program.

And literally like the couple of hours a week that I had that positive experience with other people ended up becoming enough of a sort of a reserve of well-being to let me stick with something that was important, even though I'd had all these failure experiences and I wasn't sure that I was up for it.

It actually changes the structure of your brain.

This is something that, you know, this goes back to why exercise is so good for depression.

And it's funny because it's in contrast to a lot of the other things we turn to when we want to feel better.

So, and again, this is, I, when I share the science, I always worry it's coming across as judgmental, but, you know, one of the things that I've done a fair amount of work around is addiction.

And one of the things that makes me so upset about why addiction is devastating is because a lot of the substances that initially bring people relief or reward

whether it's alcohol or any other substance, that initially it really is giving you a reward and relieving inner suffering.

And then it turns on you and it starts destroying your brain's capacity to experience reward or relief from anything other than that substance.

The structure of the brain, your brain literally becomes unresponsive to anything other than the thing that you developed an addiction to.

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