Health Sciences 4091A/B Lecture 12: Lecture 12
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Film: how to make stress your friend (kelly mcgonigal) Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort. The good things in life do not come only through the senses. Some of the most exhilarating experiences we undergo are generated inside the mind, trigger by information that challenges our ability to think, rather than from the use of sensory skills. Good things don"t just come to you, you have to generate them internally. To enjoy a mental activity, one must meet the same conditions that make physical activities enjoyable. Must be a skill in a symbolic domain, ex. They depend on natural languages, mathematics, or some other abstract notation system to achieve their ordering effects in the mind. There has to be a way of getting feedback. Must be able to concentrate and interact with the opportunities at a level that matches one"s skills. The human mind is not naturally (cid:498)ordered(cid:499), normal = chaos.