The Creative Potential of Positive Stress (Eustress) When we talk about stress, the mind almost automatically summons images of exhaustion, irritation, suffocating deadlines and sleepless nights. But for the brain — this sophisticated and surprisingly pragmatic machine — efficient work does not happen only at the poles of “absolute calm” or “total chaos”. The real magic lies in the space between stillness and collapse, where there exists a vast,fertile and deeply human terri