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You want your team to push hard, to feel as if they will come up short without total effort. But total effort doesn’t mean total anxiety. I believe optimum creativity and high performance—a sales presentation, for example, or a complex pass play from Joe Montana to Jerry Rice—are most likely to succeed when the individual or group has an attitude that is seemingly a paradox; specifically, both relaxed and intense. That’s when things really happen.

The Score Takes Care of Itself

Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh

AT FIRST GLANCE, cortisol and insulin appear to have opposite effects. Insulin is a storage hormone. Under high insulin levels (mealtimes), the body stores energy in the form of glycogen and fat. Cortisol, however, prepares the body for action, moving energy out of stores and into readily available forms, such as glucose. That cortisol and insulin would have similar weight-gain effects seems remarkable—but they do. With short-term physical stress, insulin and cortisol play opposite roles. Something quite different happens, though, when we’re under longterm psychological stress. In our modern-day lives, we have many chronic, nonphysical stressors that increase our cortisol levels. For example, marital issues, problems at work, arguments with children and sleep deprivation are all serious stressors, but they do not result in the vigorous physical exertion needed to burn off the blood glucose. Under conditions of chronic stress, glucose levels remain high and there is no resolution to the stressor. Our blood glucose can remain elevated for months, triggering the release of insulin. Chronically elevated cortisol leads to increased insulin levels—as demonstrated by several studies.

The Obesity Code

Jason Fung and Timothy Noakes

If they were scams, then $94 million did not begin to suggest the depth of the losses. To produce $94 million in tax payments, Lincoln Savings had to have produced roughly $300 million in profits. If the profits were fictitious, then Lincoln Savings would have to reverse the recognition of over $200 million in income, and that would mean that Lincoln Savings was hopelessly insolvent. Even the $200 million loss figure did not capture Lincoln Savings’ full loss exposure. In a cash-for-trash deal, the amount of cash the S&L loaned was several times larger than the fictitious profits. Lincoln Savings, therefore, could well have losses approaching $500 million from about ten loans likely to be cash-for-trash scams. Each of the borrowers defaulted.

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One

William K. Black

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