Student life was a lot less stressful and competitive.
But baseball players aren't children; they are adults in a very stressful and competitive profession.
She's been attending these shows since she was a teenager and, after "eight years of these very stressful and competitive scenarios, sitting in the front row trying to figure out how you're supposed to act", she eventually realised that "I can process this as a huge pressure cooker or I can just look at it like I have a front-row seat to the coolest concert right now".
Although cortisol is assumed to influence performance by affecting cognition during stressful and competitive situations, to date this assumption has not been tested empirically.
Corporations, businesses, and professional organizations should require "continuing education" on the topic of decorum, ethics, and anger management so that those in highly stressful and competitive fields get "refreshed" on how to mitigate the accompanying responses to that stress.
It is not surprising that American children, many of whom seem to "have everything," are so unhappy: like their parents, their teachers and their peers, they have been put on a treadmill that is ever more stressful and competitive, ever more meaningless and lonely.
Interestingly, all gnetophytes have the smallest known chloroplast genomes in photosynthetic vascular plants, possibly as a result of selection to reduce costs in stressful or competitive environments (Wu et al. 2009).
If the attorney's work is a major source of stress and disagreement, have an honest talk about the following options: Some areas of law are less stressful and competitive than others.
But some children actually do better under competitive, stressful circumstances.
Dr. Bird observes that male orangutans that grow up in stressful or highly competitive environments sometimes remain juvenile in features and behavior well into adulthood, the better to stick it out safely until the opportunity to mate improves.
