Kelly McGonigal

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

And your mind recognizes you are in a moment that is pulling you away from your goals and your commitments.

You are tempted.

You are distracted.

You are self-doubting.

And your mind recognizes that it can actually kick in a biological instinct called pause and plan that actually it decelerates your heart rate.

It increases your focus.

It activates areas of your brain that help you remember your goals and your values in a way that's actually pretty different than fight or flight.

Fight or flight often shuts down those systems of the brain and amplifies the sort of the immediate short term survival gratification systems of the brain.

So when you know that you have that instinct, again, it's part of why training your goals and your values really does work.

It sounds, I think a lot of people think, okay, but like I have no power over whatever my temptation is.

Well,

part of the reason you feel like you don't could be because you're not triggering that pause and plan instinct.

That your mind is not clear enough yet that if I've made a commitment to being like a certain, have a certain presence with my family and I'm tempted by my device going off.

In that moment, my mind needs to recognize this is a threat to my relationship with my partner and my child.

So you have to train that so that your body and brain will show up and help you.

That is truly not my mission.

I think it's interesting.

Self-doubt can also be a gift.

I don't know.

I don't really want to have an intellectual argument about it.

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