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

In his TED Talk on stress management, problem solving and resilience, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin explores “How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed.” There’s an evolutionary explanation for why we don’t do our best when we’re stressed. Levitin breaks down how we can overcome our programming to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations when our thinking becomes clouded: a pre-mortem. You’ll learn the proactive steps we can take to help us with embracing change and taking care of ourselves in the long run.