Who Can Function Better Under Stress?

I will start my post today with a question; who can function better under stress?

Everybody knows that people can be classified into type A personality which includes competitive individuals, and type B personality which includes the more relaxed group of people. In this scenario, I would say personality type A persons perform better under stress, because they are highly competitive, extremely busy and multitasking.

However, I want to analyze this issue further. Some scientists completely separate the two types of personality, yet, some others think that it depends on your motivation and acceptance of the task at hand. In the second opinion, no one can be completely type A or type B, but we could be considered a mixture of both, the question is which personality prevails.

So, Can a couch potato turn into a busy bee one day?

In my opinion, it is possible!!!

May be not in all scenarios, but it could happen. Once this couch potato finds his real beloved activity, he could be encouraged and he could turn his life around. In fact, I refuse the term "couch potato" and I will correct myself now and call him a "demotivated person". Because using negative remarks in front of a person is frustrating and discouraging. A man may lead a completely sedentary life until he finds the source for his motivation, or his dream and then he turns into a winning stallion and become a busy bee.

So who can function better under stress?

The answer is everybody can easily function under stress. First, you will have to find your stimulus, and then you will see it for yourself. There are so many examples around us, you might know a person who never leaves the house, have no friends and is a computer genius, just give him a computer-related task and he is on fire. Another might spend most of his life thinking that he can't do anything and one day he starts a blog and the next thing you know, his blog becomes an internet sensation. Also, how many writers were only known after their thirties or forties, only because they found their passion and managed to write their masterpiece...etc

So, whichever personality are you, look back at your life and you might remember an event or a project that ignited your enthusiasm and try to conjure up this spirit. I always vote for "never give up, never lose hope", however most importantly "Never lose faith in yourself"

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