Kelly McGonigal
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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
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And it's really difficult to receive help if you have a story in your head
about how like you can't trust most people and most people are bad.
It's interesting that belief really becomes a barrier to receiving help when you need it.
So there are all sorts of ways that choosing to primarily see the negative, which can be true and real, then it can undermine your ability to do what matters most in your own life, in your family, in your community.
So like, I mean, you can tell I'm not like a super Pollyanna-ish person.
I really believe in holding opposites.
You have to let your heart be broken by the things that are wrong and difficult in the world.
You have to.
That's a strength.
And also a strength is look immediately around you for evidence that that is not all that exists in the world.
And then sometimes you choose to be that.
If you can't find it, you choose to be it.
And then it gets reflected back to you.
The research is consistent with that.
You talk to scientists, you know, we don't like to use the word proof.
The idea that... And again, it's because it's not because of magic.
It's because it changes who you are and how you interact with the world.
And trust is a really good example of something that is often reciprocated.
And also there's some interesting research that...
people who are the most generally suspicious of other people, the most mistrustful, are the worst at actually discerning people who are manipulative or lying or- Because they think everyone's lying.
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