16/06/2022
Be optimistic
Soldiers in full armament need to make a forced march for 40 km. But some were told that the distance is 30 km. Others - that you have to go 60 km.
After completing the forced march, the researchers measured the levels of stress hormones in the blood of both groups. What happened? It turned out that stress does not correspond to reality, but to expectations. What do we conclude? Everyone gets what they expect.
The brain does not like to force the body to waste resources until it sees a real chance to win. Physical strength is not available as long as there is no faith in success, because there is no worse situation for the human body than to waste all resources and fail. At the moment when confidence appears, the gates open through which the flow of energy flows. Hope or despair is what we program ourselves for, they say. Breznitz, C. Hemingway. Maximum brainpower: Challenging the brain for health and wisdom authors of the book Maximum Brain Power. Optimists have more energy. Pessimists have more stress. Everything depends not on objective circumstances, but on the point of view on them.