Question

为什么有人会害怕工作的压力和竞争呢?

Answer 1

首先，磨心，工作和生活压力是每天都需要面对的，需要拿出身心来坚持不懈做好才行，做不好，你就整天七上八下，不舒坦，躺着不是，坐着不是。排解不出去，就会坐立不安，如热锅上的蚂蚁团团转。

其次，熬神，工作和生活压力需要头脑来思考解决，不费点神有时排解不了压力。若排解不了压力，就要熬神，也叫熬油，睡不好觉，日复一日神志都不清楚了，神经逐渐被压力控制了，作茧自缚，无法自拔。

最后，伤身，心神疲惫，无法自拔，就会抽烟喝酒来排解，有时茶饭不思，没有胃口，身体开始不规律，生病再所难免。身体健康出问题了，工作和生活就按下了暂停键，各种无形压力砸过来，连喘气之力都没有了，有时真是生不如死。

Answer 2

“I can't stand the pressure and competition，” explained one friend of mine when asked why he decided to quit his highly-paid but demanding position in his company recently. My friend may have his own reasons， but I don't think his decision is wise in reality.

It's true that my friend's case is not unique. In the last few years quite a number of men and women have chosen to do something less competitive at the cost of a comfortable， easy life a highly-paid job can obtain. They are afraid that the stresses and strains of work will rob them of joy and happiness and do them harm both physically and mentally. In fact， however， stress isn't the bad thing it is often supposed to be. Unless it gets out of control， a certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation and challenge， and to give purpose and significance to an otherwise meaningless， idle life. People under stress tend to express their full range of potential and to actualize their own personal worth——the very aim of a human life.

Stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to avoid it. What we can do is to develop our adaptive abilities to deal with it rather than to escape from it.