How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

The video I watched is Daniel Levitin's How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed.

The main points are the following:

• You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. 

• When you're under stress, the brain releases cortisol. Cortisol is toxic, and it causes cloudy thinking. So part of the practice of the pre-mortem is to recognize that under stress you're not going to be at your best, and you should put systems in place.

• The idea of the pre-mortem is to think ahead of time to the questions that you might be able to ask that will push the conversation forward. 

• I think the important point here is recognizing that all of us are flawed. We all are 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 minimize the damage, or to prevent the bad things from happening in the first place.

Tips of interview:

• Prepare before interview and keep practicing

• Practice makes you less nervous and make your brain clean instead of cloudy