Stress is good for you. The right kind of stress.Until the industrial age, there was practically zero conversation about work-related stress. Work was work. It was hard and necessary. Around the boom of the welfare state, our downtime increased. People started to have extra time and money to allocate to other, non-work activities. It also coincides with the first conversations around stress. In 1956, Hans Selye, a Canadian endocrinologist, wrote "The Stress of Life." The book is considered a classic in stress research. It was one of the first to introduce the concept of "stress." Selye defined "stress" as the non-specific response of the body to any demand, whether it be ......