Let’s discuss each in detail with the aim of helping you notice them first. Then, as of the next chapter, we will discuss how you can reduce them or even eliminate them altogether and put the right measures in place so they don’t come up again, which leaves you … unstressable.

When you are scared, everything seems to be a demon. Awareness of the presence of a stressor of any kind leads us to obsess about it. The primary task of your brain is to keep you safe. Influenced by its own fear and worry, your brain starts to search for threats everywhere. And what you

OBSESSIONS—INTERNAL MACRO STRESSORS

Stress is supposed to be acute, sudden, and temporary in nature. Humans are designed to stay busy surviving, not worrying about likes on Instagram. When a threat shows up, we’re supposed to handle it head-on and either survive it or, well, get eaten.

but thoughts and emotions that we create from within us.

The negative feedback loop does not perform its intended function. Instead of recognizing our physical safety, it triggers it again and again.

Those who are unstressable live true to three practices: they limit, they learn, and they listen. Limit

The biological stress machine is capable of only one form of engagement: boosting your human physical abilities to deal with a physical threat.

stressor, to suspension of the stress—works in reverse. Sometimes, often even in the modern world, the feedback cycle doesn’t shut off your stress response. Instead, it increases it. This is the worst part of stressors that are triggered by thoughts or emotions. They last for as long as the emotion or thought that triggered them persists, and they