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May 19Liked by Shmuel Chaim Naiman

Great piece! BTW, Hans Selye also did not think that stress was bad. In his classic 'stress without distress' (out of print but I have an old copy) his thesis is that without stress nothing will happen and it's only 'too much' stress that causes trouble.

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Fascinating, I didn't know that. I've only seen Frankel's original work, and appreciated the agency he gave to working with stress. Although perhaps if I'd also seen Selye's it wouldn't have sounded so different. Thank you!

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