Stress Response

Aware of this, the Gibeonites pretended to Joshua that they were not from the next city but rather a distant people. They engaged in a careful deception, appearing dishevelled and claiming to have travelled from a faraway place, drawn by the fame of God. When Joshua doubted this claim, they drew attention to their “dry and crumbly” bread, their cracked wineskins, and their worn-out clothes and sandals. Joshua was sufficiently taken in that he promised not to harm the Gibeonites in return for their servitude. Soon the Israelites realized they had been duped. Joshua was furious.  STRATEGY, A HISTORY

Stress is a biological state to helps you learn from experience. Your stress response is extremely receptive to the effects of deliberate practice. There is no better way to change your habits, other than during stress.

Stress is an inevitable consequence of engaging in roles and goals that our sense of purpose. Psychologists found that trying to avoid stress leads to less well-being sense, life satisfaction and happiness.

The more directly one aims to maximize pleasure, and avoid pain – the more likely one is to produce instead a life bereft of depth, meaning and community.

He could not break an oath made in God’s name even if obtained by deceit. Instead, he cursed the Gibeonites, telling them that they would be slaves forever. ” Why did you deceive me?” he asked. The answer was honest. Once they knew of God’s promise ” to give you the whole land and to wipe out all the inhabitants of the country on your account,” they were in great fear. Joshua had only himself to blame if he had been deceived. Convinced by the Gibenoites’ appearance, he ” did not inquire of the Lord” What is the point of having access to omniscience if it is not used to check out a potentially dubious story?  STRATEGY, A HISTORY

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.  GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Stress Response

• Cortisol – helps turn sugar and fat into energy and increases the ability to use that energy 
  • There is no good or bad – but the ratio is important – too much is impairment 
  • DHEA helps your brain grow – speeds wound repair and enhances immunity 
• Mindsets – It doesn’t feel like a choice 
  • Stress is harmful – it depletes healing 
  • Stress is positive or enhancing productivity – improves health and vitality 
    • Facilitate learning and growth 
• A body stress response is helpful for trauma recovery – not to be feared 
  • Some stressful experiences lead to negative outcomes
    • Unpredictable, uncontrollable and devoid of meaning 
  • A challenge – increase self-confidence and motivate actions 
    • help you learn from experience
  • Tend-befriend increases courage and caregiving and strengthens social relationships 
  • The brain starts to rewire itself and learn from the experience 
• Viewing a stressful situation as an opportunity to improve your skills and knowledge 
  • Makes it more likely to have a challenge-response 

You can do nothing with an army that is an amalgam of a hundred people here, a hundred people there, and so on. What can be achieved with four thousand men, united and standing shoulder to shoulder, you cannot do with forty or even four hundred thousand men who are divided and pulled this way and that by internal conflicts . .  RULES OF WAR AND BRAVERY, MUBARKSHAH,PERSIA,13 CENTURY