{"id":30,"date":"2012-03-26T11:01:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T11:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2012-03-26T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T11:01:27","slug":"stress-vs-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/stress-vs-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress vs Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stress isn\u2019t pressure<\/strong>. That\u2019s a simple fact, true by definition &#8211; but it\u2019s not how people <strong>perceive<\/strong> stress.<\/p>\n<p>The definition we use is this: stress is pressure you can\u2019t cope with. In other words, no matter how much pressure you\u2019re under, it\u2019s not stress if you (feel that you) can cope. What that means is that there\u2019s no such thing (in this sense) as a \u2018high stress job\u2019. You can have a high pressure job, sure, but if you can handle it, it\u2019s not stressful.<\/p>\n<p>Brain surgery is high pressure, yet I\u2019ve never met a stressed brain surgeon. Why? Because they are confident they can do what they do. That means it\u2019s \u2018just\u2019 pressure.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if you don\u2019t think you can cope, it\u2019s stress, no matter how little pressure you\u2019re under, objectively.<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean in practice? Well for starters it means we can stop telling ourselves we\u2019ve got a high stress job&#8230; because that builds expectation of getting stressed.<\/p>\n<p>And what do expectations do, all too often? Become self-fulfilling prophesies, that\u2019s what!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress isn\u2019t pressure. That\u2019s a simple fact, true by definition &#8211; but it\u2019s not how people perceive stress. The definition we use is this: stress is pressure you can\u2019t cope with. In other words, no matter how much pressure you\u2019re under, it\u2019s not stress if you (feel that you) can cope. What that means is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}