Parker reflects on some of the recent changes in his life and how it initiated some thoughts on stress perception and mindset. He summarizes some studies pertaining to different outcomes based on perception and mindset, and provides some personal takeaways.

Sources referenced during the episode:

- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

- Your Powerful, Changeable Mindset

- Mind-Set Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect

- Mind Over Milkshakes: Mindsets, Not Just Nutrients, Determine Ghrelin Response

- Does the Perception that Stress Affects Health Matter? The Association with Health and Mortality

- ⁠Undeniable: How To Reach The Top And Stay There⁠