How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed | Daniel Levitin | TED

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. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there's a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded — the pre-mortem. "We all are going to fail now and then," he says. "The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be."

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[paulchambers]

Came to learn about how to cope with stress; went away stressed about the state of modern medical science.

[GamingTaylor]

The title of this video is misleading... It should be "How to avoid stressful situations" this video does not do anything to help you stay calm while you are stressed.

[JohnSmith]

It’s kind of comforting to know that even a neuroscience brain expert can get stressed.

[DYKWINNING]

"If you fail to plan ahead, you plan to fail"

-Under stress you think poorly. While calm think about things that might go wrong and plan to mitigate them.
-Keep objects in the same spot so your brain wont be stressed looking for them.
-Drugs can statistically have a higher chance of hurting than helping. Under stress you will only see the benefits and block out the risks.

[jayj]

It's a great technique, I have been doing it all my life. it's called Paranoia

[Crypto_Ghost]

Thinking ahead helped me become more stressed.
Thanks.

[pentiagocity]

Lol, i don't care about what people say, i'm here to learn english

[jamesvaughn]

I think it takes a lot of courage to stand in front of a group of judgemental strangers and talk about your personal failures. So, this guy gets my vote. It's not easy. Thank you.

[jasonvoorhees]

that point is :
We need to train ourselves to think ahead to these kinds of situations, 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.


maybe you should recognizing these
before the damage will go

[kilianlindberg]

"I didn't know my thinking was cloudy because my thinking was cloudy" :)

[tubegor]

Conclusion: Think the best, but prepare for the worst.
➡️ That's what thinking ahead means.

[jasonmurray]

I’ve taught my children to consider the long-term impact of the decisions they make. Similar to this talk, it makes them consciously consider their future based on the current situation and actions. Getting in the habit of doing this regularly allows you to be more thoughtful.

[elenavitkovska]

the whole speech has very strange structure. I didn't get the point. and the title is absolutely wrong

[Lescouflair]

I believe the title should be rewritten to "What your doctor doesn't want you to know about prescription drugs." or something similar to that.

[novadwipramesti]

I got the points from this video:
1. 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.
2. Sometimes drugs can be damage to our body when we are stressed, because we only see the benefits of drugs.
3. When we are under stress, we're not thinking clearly. So think about how we're going to work through this ahead of time.
4. We need to train ourselves to think ahead to these kind of situation.

[alyahuwaida]

I feel very lucky to have found this video. To be honest, I am a person who is very easily stressed and panicked when in a stressful situation. I agree with what Mr. Daniel said, that an unclear mind will lead to a bigger disaster. However, it's a shame that most of us focus more on what will go well than on preventing something bad from happening. Because of this video I wanted to learn more about what a pre mortem is, and how to prevent bad things from happening without overthinking it.

[bored_potato]

And so because of the comments, I stopped watching this.

Edited: I forgot that I made this comment what the heck happened to the replies XD

[KrittinKalra]

I found this talk rather more informative about medicines and their effects than how to deal with stressful situations. Anyway, this was a really well compiled talk and I loved it ☺️

[merjerinebeduya]

I am fascinated by the fact that neuroscientist can also make errors just like ordinary people..😅 However, I find this video rather more about information regarding how certain medicines affect us rather than how to deal with stressful situations. Also, I find it fascinating how transparent he is regarding his failures. I mean it takes a lot of courage for someone to open up and be vulnerable specially in front of a huge crowd..

[magickgirl_thenatureschild]

For me it helped. He said at the end that all that you need to do is knowing what will cause you stress and minimize it. That’s very true actually and stressing is normal honestly there is just some unnecessary stressing sometimes that we can leave but choose not to. So it’s all up to us.