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Under stress your perceptual field contracts — you see less, process less, and mistake the narrow slice you do perceive for the whole picture. Recognizing this contraction is the first step to correcting it.
Chronic stress borrows energy from the future — it must be paid back with interest.
What you do automatically when stressed is one of your most important defaults to design.
Stress drastically reduces available willpower — account for this in your planning.
Anxiety is your system modeling potential future threats — useful if not overwhelming.
Frequent emotional flooding suggests insufficient regulation capacity.
Processed emotions do not create the chronic stress that unprocessed emotions do.