Course
How stress works
Work out why the same system that gets you through a hard day wears you down over a hard year.
The shape of it
7 lessons
About 24 minutes in total. Your progress is kept on this device — no account, nothing sent anywhere.
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The lessons
The alarm is not the damage
Tell apart the stress response and the harm attributed to it.
7 steps · about 4 min
The load lands during recovery
Explain why adaptation happens after the effort, not during it.
7 steps · about 4 min
Sleep is not idle time
Say what is being done while nothing appears to happen.
7 steps · about 4 min
The dose makes the stressor
Predict when a load builds capacity and when it exceeds it.
6 steps · about 3 min
The tab that never closes
Trace how a useful short response becomes a costly long one.
7 steps · about 4 min
Signals worth reading
Tell apart a measurement that carries information and one that carries noise.
7 steps · about 4 min
Why the advice contradicts itself
Explain how honest studies produce opposite headlines.
7 steps · about 4 min