It must be good stress, “eustress”. The stress which strengths you.

The stress must be in a very short duration. Prolonged stress and chronic stress is bad for you and your health.

For example, attempting to lift the maximum weight you can lift, once is good for your health. However, lifting weights, in the same repetition range, every single day is not good for you.

With stress and fear, it is good every once in a while to get really frightened, like seeing a lion in your bedroom as Nassim Taleb says. However, always living in trepidation or fear about your work or your boss is not a good idea.

For example, I hate looking at my investments. I only check my investments, maybe at most once a year. Ideally, once every two years.

Also I have a theory about coffee and caffeine consumption. Perhaps it’s only good to have an extreme amount of caffeine in the morning, but not steadily throughout the day.

The same thing goes with hunger and eating. Intermittent fasting is good for you, because the stress of hunger during the day actually strengthens you. Also the process of “autophagy” acts like a vacuum cleaner effect, getting rid of the bad and weak proteins in your body. And when you are going to break your fast in the evening, eat a shitload of meat.

Maybe it is also the same thing with anger. Hold your tongue 99.9% of the time, but allow yourself to violently erupt maybe once a month or every other month.

Maybe it’s the same with alcohol— better to get shitfaced once a month than having a beer every single day.

Maybe also the same thing with marijuana: better to just get very very high once a month, then smoke every single day to put yourself to sleep.