Mastering Stress for Optimum Performance Stress has been around from the beginning of time and it will be here till the end. Stress and challenges have brought about greats like Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X. Eustress is needed in our lives to make this world exciting and fulfilling. On the other hand, distress can be unhealthy and sometimes lethal. The American Association statistics show that 50% of all diseases are preventable, if people …showed first 75 words of 2188 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2188 total…time around. As I was writing this paper I came to realize that I had to make a few changes in my life. I found that I was not getting enough rest and this was causing me to perform poorly in my classes. It is weird writing a paper on stress and finding that most of the symptoms apply to me. Stress could be a wonderful feeling, if it is managed in the correct way.