Daniel Leviton's: How to stay calm when you know you will be stressed

This video was at the recommendation list of videos that I should watch on Youtube and what made me clicked on it was the tittle. The tittle is- how to stay calm when you know you will be stressed, I can definitely relate to the tittle because it is something that I have and will go through, which is stress. So I thought that this video could help me learn a few tips and actually be a beneficial video. These are some of the things that I've learnt from this video;

• How our brain performs under stress; under stress, our brains releases cortisol that raises our heart rate, modulates adrenaline levels and it clouds our thinking.

Perspective Hindsight: ( pre-mortem)

- is to look ahead and try to figure out all the things that could go wrong, and then try to figure out what can be done to prevent such things from happening, or to minimize the damage.

Things we could do in form of pre-mortem:

• Designate a place for things that are easily lost in your house area. The reason so is that our brain has this thing called the hippocampus that keeps track of the locations of important things. So if you are the kind of person that tends to be more forgetful and clumsy, this could hep.
• Have to recognize that under stress, you are not going to be at your best and should put systems in place.

When your brain releases cortisol, a whole bunch of systems shuts down. This is because, when faced to face with predators, digestive system, or your libido, immune system is not needed as your body is expanding metabolism on those things and you don't react quickly, you'll get attacked and none of those things matter. Unfortunately, one of the things that goes missing is rational, logical thinking.Hence, we need to train ourselves to think ahead in this kinds of situations.

* Important point here is to recognize that we are flawed. We are all going to fail now and then. The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be, to put systems in place that will help to prevent them from happening.