CULTURA/HUGH WHITAKER/ GETTY IMAGES
Voices
ART
MARKMAN
Stress
Can
Make
You
Do
Good
Things,
Too
THE EFFECTS OF STRESS on
willpower are a staple of romantic comedies. A character
goes through a difficult romantic breakup, and in the next
scene, she is sitting on the couch
smeared in ice cream with empty
wrappers strewn on the couch.
All of us have experienced this
kind of failure of self-control.
There is some bad habit we are
trying to avoid, and we succeed
until life gets hectic. Suddenly, it is
business-as-usual. Because these
breakdowns of willpower are so
clear when they happen, you might
think that stressful situations
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