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"stress." Far from it. The Japanese spend a staggering 66% less on medical
care per unit of population than we do. Yet they consistently outlive us!145
Like the Japanese, we have to restore our sense that stimulation can be
exhilarating. We have to realize that challenge is not our enemy, it is our
salvation, and that the dangers we have interpreted as stress come from
something far different than what we've imagined. They do not spring from
ambition or the drive of the dedicated. They come from isolation, separation
from the social beast, removal from the superorganismic unit that gives our
life its meaning. Our pains do not proceed from overactivity, but from the
loss of control, from the feeling that we are allowing ourselves to be shuffled
from the pecking order's peak. And the solution to our problem is not a
good vacation. Our hope and our pleasure lie in rolling up our sleeves and
going to work.
the U.S. in 1993, the "salary man's" dedication seldom maims him with
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