stressors

Agile, whether big or little 'a', is about some kind of stressors and some kind of adapting to meet those stressors.

That's why agile is so tough in schools and large organizations -- the lack of stressors means a lack of impetus to adapt.

Removing stressors from your diet may take some of the load off a frail gut, but it won't repair it.

The only difference is that in OTS the stressors are usually mostly physical, where in CFS they are (usually) mostly mental.

Here in India marriage is sky high, yet stressors of any sort are vastly higher.

We just behave differently because we're under a different and mostly less severe set of stressors.

To me, genuinely being myself is the thing that's liberating; the added stressors of travel do little to with finding clarity in this realm.

Spices and herbs grown for bulk may be grown in poorer conditions with higher stressors in the environment and growth accelerants added to the feed.

But anti-fragility indicates that performance improves with stressors or catastrophic/unexpected events.

But I would argue that the stressors are the same kinds of deadlines as you would see in any professional organization.

Which is great, since I need some authentic stress variables in order to simulate some of the stressors of my hunter-gatherer heritage.

Mild stressors that would occur naturally - physical exertion, exposure, hunger; it is perfectly logical that natural selection would favour those who handle these circumstances well.

Humans turn to eating when facing all kinds of physical and emotional stressors; "simply eating less" is simplistic logic that doesn't hold water in practice.

I don't buy the explanation that "stressors" are somehow the cause.

Once we accept that culture rather than "stressors" drives behavior (as you've just done), it begs the question of whether poor Americans also have a different culture with less "family values".

I described those stressors in general terms as "business value" -- making something quickly that people want -- but you can fit a lot of things into "business value" For instance, on a student project, those stressors can be incremental timeboxes (if you have 3 months, why not have 2-week or 1-week cycles with a demo to one of your peer groups?