Joe Kong
Reaction Paper—“Stress” is no longer a negative word in my mind
Before I read the story of Colby on Radiolab and remind the experience of
myself, I thought “stress” always is a negative word on my mind since teachers
have been giving me lots of stress for years. I thought that “stress” is only affect
our emotion but not action. The word of “stress” can be defined as a feeling of
strain and pressure. Sometimes, stress can save our life since it can play a role of
motivation and stimulate our physical arousal. Most of the time, we may
experience stress by the external environment, such as pressure and discomfort,
etc. Sometimes, stress may only created by internal perceptions. Stress can be
both good and bad things, it depends on the situations, personal thoughts as well
as the environments.
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