Some stress helps us focus, but too much destroys our decision making capabilities. Therefore, we must learn how to manage stress in situations, so that we make the best decisions possible.
In ethically questionable experiments performed by Nobel Laureate, Ivan Pavlov, where he stress-induced nervous breakdowns in dogs and tried to reverse the effects, he found:
“He could classify dogs so as to predict how easily a particular dog would breakdown.”
“The dogs hardest to break down were also the hardest to return to their pre-breakdown state.”
“Any dog could be broken down.”
“He couldn’t reverse a breakdown except by reimposing stress.”
Source:
Michael Simmons & Ian Chew
