People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.

The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.