Be an optimist. Life's biggest winners are optimists. I'm optimistic by nature, but society is so sped up, and that contributes to the 'overwhelm' mode. Not having time to prioritize works against optimism. Richard J. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, has studied the biology of optimism and found that optimists have higher levels of natural killer-cell activity, with a smaller decline under stress, so they are more capable of fighting disease.
Optimists also have lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
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