TED英语演讲稿如何跟压力做朋友2021年3月整理.docx

Error! No text of specified style in document.第 6 页 共 6 页TED英语演讲稿：如何跟压力做朋友 Why you should listen to her： Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal is a leader in the growing field of science-help. Through books, articles, courses and workshops, McGonigal works to help us understand and implement the latest scientific findings in psychology, neuroscience and medicine. Straddling the worlds of research and practice, McGonigal holds positions in both the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the School of Medicine. Her most recent book, The Willpower Instinct, explores the latest research on motivation, temptation and procrastination, as well as what it takes to transform habits, persevere at challenges and make a successful change. She is now researching a new book about the upside of stress, which will look at both why stress is good for us, and what makes us good at stress. In her words: The old understanding of stress as a unhelpful relic of our animal instincts is being replaced by the understanding that stress actually makes us socially smart -- its what allows us to be fully human. I have a confession to make, but first, I want you to make a little confession to me. In the past year, I want you to just raise your hand if youve experienced relatively little stress. Anyone? How about a moderate amount of stress? Who has experienced a lot of stress? Yeah. Me too. But that is not my confession. My confession is this: I am a health psychologist, and my mission is to help people be happier and healthier. But I fear that something Ive been teaching for the last 10 years is doing more harm than good, and it has to do with stress. For years Ive been telling people, stress makes you sick. It increases the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease. Basically, Ive turned stress into the enemy. But I have changed my mind about stress, and today, I want to change yours. Let me start with the study that made me rethink my whole approach to stress. This study tracked 30,000 adults in the United States for eight years, and they started by asking people, How much stress have you experienced in the last year? They also asked, Do you believe that stress is harmful for your health? And then they used public death records to find out who died. (Laughter) Okay. Some bad news first. People who experienced a lot of stress in the previous year had a 43 percent increased risk of dying. But that was only true for the people who also believed that stress is harmful for your health. (Laughter) People who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful were no more likely to die. In fact, they had the lowest risk of dying of anyone in the study, including people who had relatively little stress. Now the researchers estimated that over the eight years they were tracking deaths, 182,000 Americans died prematurely, not from stress, but from the belief that stress is bad for you. (Laughter) That is over 20,000 deaths a year. Now, if that estimate is correct, that would make believing stress is bad for you the 15th largest cause of death in the United States last year, killing more people than skin cancer, HIV/AIDS and homicide. (Laughter) You can see why this study freaked me out. Here Ive been spending so much energy telling people stress is bad for your health. So this study got me wondering: Can changing how you think about stress make you healthier? And here the science says yes. When you change your mind about stress, you can change your bodys response to stress. Now to explain how this works, I want you all to pretend that you are participants in a study designed to stress you out. Its called the social stress test. You come into the laboratory, and youre told you have to give a five-minute impromptu speech on your personal weaknesses to a panel of expert evaluators sitting right in front of you, and to make sure you feel the pressure, there are bright lights and a camera in your face, kind of like this. And the evaluators have been trained to give you discouraging, non-verbal feedback like this. (Laughter) Now that youre sufficiently demoralized, time for part two: a math test. And unbeknownst to you, the experimenter has been trained to harass you during it. Now were going to all do this together. Its going to be fun. For me. Okay. I want you all to count backwards from 996 in increments of seven. Youre going to do this out loud as fast as you can, starting with 996. Go! Audience: (Counting) Go faster. Faster please. Youre going too slow. Stop. Stop, stop, stop. That guy made a mistake. We are going to have to start all over again. (Laughter) Youre not very good at this, are you? Okay, so you get the idea. Now, if you were actually in this study, youd probably be a little stressed out. Your heart might be pounding, you might be breathing faster, maybe break。