Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (Revised and Updated) | 
My husband found this book which he thought I‘d like at a local #LittleFreeLibrary. He grabbed the book and brought it home to me because he knows the battle I‘d been fighting with #stress during the years of the pandemic. I think this book will be both a fun and helpful read for me. I‘m very happy to be reading it now.
A book that helped me understand that stress is all around us and how to overcome it! #nonfiction #coffee
panOMG, in my quest to be better, this was a suggested read from the Leadership community. It has some funny parts, it's been revised for contemporary medical concerns but it is boring.
SPOILER: you get the answer early in the reading.🤨
imagine this: sit with a group of hunter-gatherers from the African grasslands and explain to them that in our world we have so much food and so much free time that some of us run 26 miles in a day, simply for the sheer pleasure of it. They are likely to say, “Are you crazy? That‘s stressful.” Throughout hominid history, if you‘re running 26 miles in a day, you‘re either very intent on eating someone or someone‘s very intent on eating you.
Who can guess what my next class is?! You know you've chosen the right field to go into when you get super excited about your classes and textbooks ☺️
The frontal cortex is the nearest thing you have to a superego. Starting from toilet training, it helps you to do the harder, rather than the easier thing. It keeps you from murdering someone just because you feel like it, keeps you from telling someone what you think of their hideous outfit ...
