Is the pressure “life-saving” or “energy-giving”?

Editor’s note: This article is from the WeChat public account “less shifts” (ID: Lishaojia2015), author Li Shaojia.

Pressure, an old friend of mankind, seems to be worthy of the “best friend” no matter how you look at it:

  • Unhappy, stressful

  • Insomnia, anorexia, stress

  • The memory is getting worse and the pressure is high

  • “Understanding the collapse”, overtime and death, great pressure

  • Getting fat is stressful, and weight loss is also stressful

  • ……

In short, everything is stress.

Physiological studies have shown that a large number of chronic diseases are associated with stress, such as heart disease, diabetes, cognitive decline, and so on. These institutions advise us to “learn to let go” and restore health.

Is this kind of advice useful? not at all.

Because the majority of the stress is an “objective” event.

It’s like, during the famine period, looking for food pressure.

The above suggestions are translated. “Let’s put down the persistence of finding food, and stay at home (waiting for death) is much easier.”

Many people think that during the war years or the economic downturn, people are under great pressure; or that the pressure of the poor is high and the rich are not under pressure.

This is a misunderstanding.

Pressure has been a national issue since ancient times.

Psychological research shows that the pressure of wealthy people to worry about the depreciation of wealth is exactly the same as the pressure of poor people to earn less money.

*Considering the “loss aversion effect”, the pressure of the rich is even greater than the poor

As another example, some people believe that the pressure on the economic upswing is small.

This is not right, then people will worry about missing a chance to make a fortune, and the growth of wealth is falling behind the times.

……

In short, as the wedding oath says, whether it is good or bad, wealthy or poor, sick or healthy… everyone is under pressure.

All people live under pressure.

According to the above research, stress and cognitive decline are highly correlated, so today’s human intelligence should be drastically reduced, and the road should be full of mentally retarded youth.

But it doesn’t seem to match reality.

Is that these research institutions are wrong? Nor is it.