We tend to think of stress as having clear, definable causes. You’re stressed because your workload is too high, your company is at a turning point, or you can’t get reliable childcare. The solution, if that’s the case, is equally concrete. Maybe you take a vacation, raise capital, or hire a babysitter. Anyway, in order to kill stress, you have to change something significant about your life circumstances.
But what if radically reducing your stress didn’t require changing your lifestyle, but only changing your mind? A new paper laying out the effects of a simple 30-minute online class that helps students reframe how they think about stress suggests it’s possible.
