Kelly McGonigal

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787 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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

But also I would say, oh, I promise I told you a cat would show up eventually.

I see her.

I think she knew because I was touching into my deepest fear.

Got you.

Wow.

But the other thing is that fear that like, because I'm a psychologist, I know the data.

I know the philosophy.

I know the human history.

There is some good stuff in humanity and there is some dark stuff in human nature.

And any way you want to slice it up from,

sort of what our biology is, instincts, psychology, whatever, good stuff, bad stuff, that one of the things I resist is allowing myself to only pay attention to the things that cause me outrage or despair.

Make a real practice of looking for the good and celebrating the good as a stance that I choose to take to

preserve myself and my ability to engage with life.

And because it's, it is a perspective that I am choosing that I, that I believe is meaningful.

Yeah.

I mean, this is one of those mindsets that really matters.

So, you know, we started out talking about stress mindset and that how you think about stress can have a very big impact on your health and your, your wellbeing.

And it turns out one of the other mindsets that has a huge impact on anything interesting you might want to measure is they sometimes refer to it as benevolent beliefs, but things like, do you believe benevolent?

I know it's a weird, that's, I don't know.

I'm thinking like if somebody wants to do a Google scholar search, that's some interesting research.

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