Increasing your stress tolerance in decision-making

- One excellent way to improve … your decision making under stressful situations … is to increase your stress tolerance. … It's not about eliminating stress. … It's about tolerating stress. … Increasing your stress tolerance … improves your relationship with stress, … how you perceive stress. … The first step is to recognize that not all stress is bad. … You're about to be called up on stage to accept an award. … You're about to say, "I do." … The good stress is called eustress. … Then there's the distressing stress, … uncertainty, lack of confidence, unpredictability. … Stress tolerance is a willingness … to engage, accept, and harness anxiety … associated with doubt and uncertainty … and unpredictability, things that cause stress. … You need stress tolerance for curiosity, … to be comfortable with uncertainty, … to explore things you don't know, … to expose yourself to enough experiences to draw on, … and to collect enough resources … for good decision making. … Let's find out how stress tolerant you are, …