"A little anxiety from time to time can be beneficial to task performance…[as] illustrated by the Yerkes-Dodson law, which states…performance is improved by anxiety until an optimum level of arousal ...
When business leaders talk about performance, the conversation invariably turns to pipelines, OKRs, deliverables and outputs. We track dashboards, monitor metrics and demand accountability. But what ...
After reading the title of this post, some readers may be asking “Stress can be positive? How could anxiety ever be ‘optimal?'" Modern society has trained us to think that we should rarely, if ever, ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Increased surgeon physiological stress at the beginning of surgery was associated with reduced surgical ...
How fast does your nervous system recover after a stressful day? Here’s how to find out, and why it matters more than you ...
Calin Van Paris is an editor at Yoga Journal. She spent a decade covering beauty and wellness for Vogue, with additional contributions to Bustle, Well+Good, Allure, and more. In addition to playing ...
Dr Grant detailed: “Prolonged stress can also manifest physically through increased muscle tension and unexplained aches and pains. When the body remains in a heightened state of alertness, muscles in ...
Recently, at the AVSEC and Cybersecurity Week in Montreal, I had the opportunity to discuss with Bonnie Kudrick (former TSA and now CEO of HUMANLINK LLC) how the human factor impacts the aviation ...