2020-11-10 BWH group 2

Greg Malivuk
greg.malivuk@gmail.com
https://pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes (This is BWH Group 2)
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Full talk at https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend
Watch the TED talk and answer the main idea questions on p. 96.
1 b
2 c
3 a
4 a
5 a
Do you remember the details?
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22201278/ - The study she refers to about mortality.
Possible problems (that I notice as an amateur with a math degree):
- They found statistical significance in only one of 11 comparisons. (Which could more easily happen by chance because they’re making multiple comparisons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem)
- She concludes that that group had higher mortality because they believe stress has impacted their health, but it’s also reasonable to simply conclude that they believe stress has impacted their health because stress has impacted their health (and that impact is why more of them died).
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bottle something up = keep something inside you (especially things that cause “pressure” or stress), as opposed to “letting it out” or releasing the pressure
(If you don’t release it gently, you might blow up or explode with anger. You can vent other feelings if you talk about them all at once.)

fine-tune = improving or perfecting something (that’s already pretty good) with minor adjustments
	(“fine” in this case means small or delicate)

“Your biological stress response is nudging you to tell someone how you feel, instead of bottling it up.”
nudge = a small push (In this context it’s a push toward doing something, so it’s encouragement.)
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“When you choose to view your stress response as helpful”
- can you choose to do this? Is that something you can just change by choosing to?
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BREAK
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A lot of people are underwhelmed when they see the Mona Lisa. They find it anticlimactic.
Would you want to see the King Tut exhibit at the Cairo Museum?
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thrive = prosper; be healthy and do well (often contrasted with survive = not die)

Three threatening thriving thralls threw thread through thresholds.