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How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed? | Daniel Levitin (deconstraction)

Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin presented the topic of the ways evading critical mistakes under the stress. However, as the title of the video is “How to stay calm when you know you will be stressed” the information provided by the presenter is considerably different. Consequently, people who are searching the means of self-control in stressful situations will be misled.
Based on his personal experience Daniel tried to explain how people can prevent undesirable consequences in the condition of “cloudy thinking”. The speaker started from the recent predicament in his life. He returned to his own house and found that he had forgotten the keys of his house. Because it was around midnight time and terrible cold outside he had to break his basement window with a large rock. Next morning he had a flight to Europe but under the stress he had forgotten his passport at home and returned to bring it. This was a great example how people encounter a chain of egregious situations triggered by the stressed condition.
The presenter supported his recommendations by explaining that human brain release cortisol in stressful state that overshadows your logical thinking. The first advice is a notion of “pre-mortem” when you try to anticipate any failures. As an example, he suggested to place easily lost things at the same place. However, this is an appropriate rationale only for ameliorating the possible unfavorable conditions of always losing some staffs than preventing misfortunes. Despite such measures, people can simply forget to take the keys, wallets or phones with them. Also, the question is raised: How is it possible to think beforehand about every potential negative aftermath? Additionally, it might lead to more stressful condition. Another author`s suggestion is about cases of travelling, he adviced to take photos of your passport, credit cards, driver license and mail it to the cloud. So, the presenter emphasizes that it might facilitate its replacement if these things are stolen. Two abovementioned suggestions might take place but the speaker did not pinpoint the negative consequences of going them also wrong. The otherwise case is if the phone and online documents get into the hands of frauds it will turn to more disastrous results. This offer is rather pertinent, yet it is commonsensical to prepare a list of necessary things and then check every point while packing.
The last thing mentioned by the author is to recognize that in any tough situation you are not able to make a good decision. For instance, a doctor prescribed you statin, a drug that decrease the level of cholesterol in your body. From the author`s words, this drug diminishes the amount of cholesterol only of one person in 300. It seems unreliable data as it is unlikely that doctor could prescribe such strong medicines only for the sake of giving a recipe. An additional point is that approximately 5 % of patients might have the side effects of taking this drug. It means that 15 people from 300 might be affected by side effects that are considerably higher. Because of this the author alleges very person has to take a conversation with the doctor about possible risks. I ascertain the last advice very relevant and useful because people sometimes do not realize even how they are entangled in a chain of tough situations.
The main claim of the author is that humans need to train themselves to think ahead to prevent these harmful situations. Generally, the speaker addressed the great topic and notions to consider. So, Daniel revealed such meaningful terms and processes as cortisol, pre-mortem helpful to understand the nature of human behavior and reactions. During his talk, the manner of giving presentation was confident and persuasive, and speech was clear and simple. Although, the speaker tried to support every idea by the example, they do not get the reader to the answer. Most of recommendations are obscure and feeble devoid of meticulous analysis. Personally, I liked this presentation as it involved significant issues and new information.

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Nice deconstruction post. I see how you address the author’s speech point by point, summarize the main ideas and find a few faults in his presentation.

Be careful with your use of “ascertain”. It means to find out, or make certain. Everything else seems to be clear and accurate!

How to Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed by Daniel Levitin (Transcript)

Transcript of How to Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed by neuroscientist Daniel Levitin at TED Talks…

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A few years ago, I broke into my own house. I had just driven home, it was around midnight in the dead of Montreal winter, I had been visiting my friend, Jeff, across town, and the thermometer on the front porch read minus 40 degrees — and don’t bother asking if that’s Celsius or Fahrenheit, minus 40 is where the two scales meet — it was very cold.

And as I stood on the front porch fumbling in my pockets, I found I didn’t have my keys. In fact, I could see them through the window, lying on the dining room table where I had left them. So I quickly ran around and tried all the other doors and windows, and they were locked tight. I thought about calling a locksmith — at least I had my cellphone, but at midnight, it could take a while for a locksmith to show up, and it was cold. I couldn’t go back to my friend Jeff’s house for the night because I had an early flight to Europe the next morning, and I needed to get my passport and my suitcase.

So, desperate and freezing cold, I found a large rock and I broke through the basement window, cleared out the shards of glass, I crawled through, I found a piece of cardboard and taped it up over the opening, figuring that in the morning, on the way to the airport, I could call my contractor and ask him to fix it. This was going to be expensive, but probably no more expensive than a middle-of-the-night locksmith, so I figured, under the circumstances, I was coming out even.

Now, I’m a neuroscientist by training and I know a little bit about how the brain performs under stress. It releases cortisol that raises your heart rate, it modulates adrenaline levels and it clouds your thinking.

So the next morning, when I woke up on too little sleep, worrying about the hole in the window, and a mental note that I had to call my contractor, and the freezing temperatures, and the meetings I had upcoming in Europe, and with all the cortisol in my brain, my thinking was cloudy, but I didn’t know it was cloudy because my thinking was cloudy.

And it wasn’t until I got to the airport check-in counter, that I realized I didn’t have my passport. So I raced home in the snow and ice, 40 minutes, got my passport, raced back to the airport, I made it just in time, but they had given away my seat to someone else, so I got stuck in the back of the plane, next to the bathrooms, in a seat that wouldn’t recline, on an eight-hour flight. Well, I had a lot of time to think during those eight hours and no sleep.

And I started wondering, are there things that I can do, systems that I can put into place, that will prevent bad things from happening? Or at least if bad things happen, will minimize the likelihood of it being a total catastrophe. So I started thinking about that, but my thoughts didn’t crystallize until about a month later.

I was having dinner with my colleague, Danny Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner, and I somewhat embarrassedly told him about having broken my window, and forgot my passport, and Danny shared with me that he’d been practicing something called prospective hindsight. It’s something that he had gotten from the psychologist Gary Klein, who had written about it a few years before, also called the pre-mortem. Now, you all know what the postmortem is. Whenever there’s a disaster, a team of experts come in and they try to figure out what went wrong, right? Well, in the pre-mortem, Danny explained, you look ahead and you try to figure out all the things that could go wrong, and then you try to figure out what you can do to prevent those things from happening, or to minimize the damage.

So what I want to talk to you about today are some of the things we can do in the form of a pre-mortem. Some of them are obvious, some of them are not so obvious. I’ll start with the obvious ones.

Around the home, designate a place for things that are easily lost. Now, this sounds like common sense, and it is, but there’s a lot of science to back this up, based on the way our spatial memory works. There’s a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, that evolved over tens of thousands of years, to keep track of the locations of important things — where the well is, where fish can be found, that stand of fruit trees, where the friendly and enemy tribes live.

The hippocampus is the part of the brain that in London taxicab drivers becomes enlarged. It’s the part of the brain that allows squirrels to find their nuts. And if you’re wondering, somebody actually did the experiment where they cut off the olfactory sense of the squirrels, and they could still find their nuts. They weren’t using smell, they were using the hippocampus, this exquisitely evolved mechanism in the brain for finding things. But it’s really good for things that don’t move around much, not so good for things that move around. So this is why we lose car keys and reading glasses and passports.

So in the home, designate a spot for your keys — a hook by the door, maybe a decorative bowl. For your passport, a particular drawer. For your reading glasses, a particular table. If you designate a spot and you’re scrupulous about it, your things will always be there when you look for them.

What about travel? Take a cell phone picture of your credit cards, your driver’s license, your passport, mail it to yourself so it’s in the cloud. If these things are lost or stolen, you can facilitate replacement.

Now these are some rather obvious things. Remember, 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.

And there’s perhaps no more stressful a situation than when you’re confronted with a medical decision to make. And at some point, all of us are going to be in that position where we have to make a very important decision about the future of our medical care or that of a loved one, to help them with a decision.

And so I want to talk about that. And I’m going to talk about a very particular medical condition. But this stands as a proxy for all kinds of medical decision-making, and indeed for financial decision-making, and social decision-making — any kind of decision you have to make that would benefit from a rational assessment of the facts.

So suppose you go to your doctor and the doctor says, “I just got your lab work back, your cholesterol’s a little high.” Now, you all know that high cholesterol is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke. And so you’re thinking having high cholesterol isn’t the best thing, and so the doctor says, “You know, I’d like to give you a drug that will help you lower your cholesterol, a statin.” And you’ve probably heard of statins, you know that they’re among the most widely prescribed drugs in the world today, you probably even know people who take them. And so you’re thinking, “Yeah! Give me the statin.”

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

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.”

Вы не вы, когда под стрессом. Фактически, ваш мозг эволюционировал на протяжении тысячелетий, чтобы высвободить кортизол в стрессовых ситуациях, подавляя рациональное, логическое мышление, но потенциально помогая вам выжить, скажем, если нападёт лев. Нейробиолог Даниэль Левитин считает, что есть способ избежать критических ошибок в стрессовых ситуациях, когда ваше мышление становится омраченным.

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00:13
A few years ago, I broke into my own house. I had just driven home, it was around midnight in the dead of Montreal winter, I had been visiting my friend, Jeff, across town, and the thermometer on the front porch read minus 40 degrees — and don’t bother asking if that’s Celsius or Fahrenheit, minus 40 is where the two scales meet — it was very cold. And as I stood on the front porch fumbling in my pockets, I found I didn’t have my keys. In fact, I could see them through the window, lying on the dining room table where I had left them. So I quickly ran around and tried all the other doors and windows, and they were locked tight. I thought about calling a locksmith — at least I had my cellphone, but at midnight, it could take a while for a locksmith to show up, and it was cold. I couldn’t go back to my friend Jeff’s house for the night because I had an early flight to Europe the next morning, and I needed to get my passport and my suitcase.

01:08
So, desperate and freezing cold, I found a large rock and I broke through the basement window, cleared out the shards of glass, I crawled through, I found a piece of cardboard and taped it up over the opening, figuring that in the morning, on the way to the airport, I could call my contractor and ask him to fix it. This was going to be expensive, but probably no more expensive than a middle-of-the-night locksmith, so I figured, under the circumstances, I was coming out even.

01:08
Промёрзший насквозь и отчаявшийся, я нашёл большущий камень и разбил им окно подвала. Убрал осколки стекла, забрался внутрь, нашёл кусок картона и закрыл им дыру, решив, что утром по дороге в аэропорт позвоню своему мастеру и попрошу его починить окно. Будет дорого стоить, но скорее всего, не дороже, чем услуги слесаря в полночь. Так что в сложившихся обстоятельствах по деньгам нет разницы.

01:36
Now, I’m a neuroscientist by training and I know a little bit about how the brain performs under stress. It releases cortisol that raises your heart rate, it modulates adrenaline levels and it clouds your thinking. So the next morning, when I woke up on too little sleep, worrying about the hole in the window, and a mental note that I had to call my contractor, and the freezing temperatures, and the meetings I had upcoming in Europe, and, you know, with all the cortisol in my brain, my thinking was cloudy, but I didn’t know it was cloudy because my thinking was cloudy.

01:36
По образованию я невролог и знаком с тем, как мозг работает в условиях стресса. Он вырабатывает кортизол, который ускоряет сердцебиение, изменяет уровень адреналина в крови и затуманивает мышление. На следующее утро, поспав совсем немного, переживая о разбитом окне, мысленно отметив себе позвонить мастеру, с морозом за окном, приближающейся встречей в Европе — со всем этим кортизолом в мозге моё мышление было затуманено, но я не отдавал себе в этом отчёта, так как моё мышление было затуманено.

02:15
And it wasn’t until I got to the airport check-in counter, that I realized I didn’t have my passport.

02:22
So I raced home in the snow and ice, 40 minutes, got my passport, raced back to the airport, I made it just in time, but they had given away my seat to someone else, so I got stuck in the back of the plane, next to the bathrooms, in a seat that wouldn’t recline, on an eight-hour flight. Well, I had a lot of time to think during those eight hours and no sleep.

02:44
And I started wondering, are there things that I can do, systems that I can put into place, that will prevent bad things from happening? Or at least if bad things happen, will minimize the likelihood of it being a total catastrophe. So I started thinking about that, but my thoughts didn’t crystallize until about a month later. I was having dinner with my colleague, Danny Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner, and I somewhat embarrassedly told him about having broken my window, and, you know, forgotten my passport, and Danny shared with me that he’d been practicing something called prospective hindsight.

03:20
It’s something that he had gotten from the psychologist Gary Klein, who had written about it a few years before, also called the pre-mortem. Now, you all know what the postmortem is. Whenever there’s a disaster, a team of experts come in and they try to figure out what went wrong, right? Well, in the pre-mortem, Danny explained, you look ahead and you try to figure out all the things that could go wrong, and then you try to figure out what you can do to prevent those things from happening, or to minimize the damage.

03:20
Он узнал об этом от психолога Гэри Клейна, написавшего пару лет назад об этой методике, известной также как премортем. Все знают, что такое постмортем. Когда случается катастрофа, приезжает команда специалистов и пытается определить, что пошло не так. В практике премортем, объяснил Дэнни, ты заранее планируешь, что может пойти не так, а затем определяешь, что ты сам можешь сделать, чтобы это предотвратить или минимизировать ущерб.

03:48
So what I want to talk to you about today are some of the things we can do in the form of a pre-mortem*. Some of them are obvious, some of them are not so obvious. I’ll start with the obvious ones.

03:48
И сегодня я хочу рассказать вам о том, как можно действовать в рамках премортема. Некоторые из этих действий очевидны, некоторые — нет. Начнём с очевидных.

03:59
Around the home, designate* a place for things that are easily lost. Now, this sounds like common sense, and it is, but there’s a lot of science to back this up*, based on the way our spatial memory works. There’s a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, that evolved over tens of thousands of years, to keep track of the locations of important things — where the well is, where fish can be found, that stand of fruit trees, where the friendly and enemy tribes live. The hippocampus is the part of the brain that in London taxicab drivers becomes enlarged. It’s the part of the brain that allows squirrels to find their nuts. And if you’re wondering, somebody actually did the experiment where they cut off the olfactory sense of the squirrels, and they could still find their nuts. They weren’t using smell, they were using the hippocampus, this exquisitely evolved mechanism in the brain for finding things. But it’s really good for things that don’t move around much, not so good for things that move around. So this is why we lose car keys and reading glasses and passports. So in the home, designate a spot for your keys — a hook by the door, maybe a decorative bowl. For your passport, a particular drawer. For your reading glasses, a particular table. If you designate a spot and you’re scrupulous about it, your things will always be there when you look for them.

05:24
What about travel? Take a cell phone picture of your credit cards, your driver’s license, your passport, mail it to yourself so it’s in the cloud. If these things are lost or stolen, you can facilitate replacement.

05:24
Как насчёт путешествий? Сделайте фото на мобильник своей кредитной карты, водительских прав, паспорта, отправьте их себе на почту. При потере или краже этих документов их будет легче восстановить.

05:37
Now these are some rather obvious things. Remember, 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.

05:37
Эти приёмы из разряда очевидных. Помните, под действием стресса мозг вырабатывает кортизол. Кортизол токсичен и затуманивает мышление. Поэтому одна из практик премортема — осознать, что в стрессовом состоянии вы действуете не лучшим образом, а значит, нужна система.

05:55
And there’s perhaps no more stressful a situation than when you’re confronted with a medical decision to make. And at some point, all of us are going to be in that position, where we have to make a very important decision about the future of our medical care or that of a loved one, to help them with a decision.

05:55
И пожалуй, нет более стрессовой ситуации, чем когда приходится принять медицинское решение. Рано или поздно каждый из нас оказывается в таком положении, когда нужно принять очень важное решение о своём здоровье или здоровье близких, помочь им принять такое решение.

06:12
And so I want to talk about that. And I’m going to talk about a very particular medical condition. But this stands as a proxy for all kinds of medical decision-making, and indeed for financial decision-making, and social decision-making — any kind of decision you have to make that would benefit from a rational assessment of the facts.

06:12
Поговорим об этом. Рассмотрим весьма конкретную медицинскую ситуацию, но она обобщает в себе все виды медицинских решений, а также наших финансовых, социальных решений — любых решений, которые вы принимаете и которые станут лучше при рациональной оценке фактов.

06:31
So suppose you go to your doctor and the doctor says, “I just got your lab work back, your cholesterol’s a little high.” Now, you all know that high cholesterol is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke. And so you’re thinking having high cholesterol isn’t the best thing, and so the doctor says, “You know, I’d like to give you a drug that will help you lower your cholesterol, a statin.” And you’ve probably heard of statins, you know that they’re among the most widely prescribed drugs in the world today, you probably even know people who take them. And so you’re thinking, “Yeah! Give me the statin.”

06:31
Представим, что вы пришли к врачу, и он говорит: «Пришли результаты анализов. Ваш уровень холестерина повышен». Всем известно, что высокий уровень холестерина означает повышенный риск сердечно-сосудистых заболеваний, инсульта и инфаркта. Вам понятно, что высокий уровень холестерина — плохо. А доктор продолжает: «Я думаю прописать вам лекарство, которое поможет понизить уровень холестерина — статин». Вы, наверное, слышали о статине — одно из самых распространённых лекарств в мире на сегодняшний день. Может, вы даже знакомы с теми, кто его принимает. Вы решаете: «Хорошо, прописывайте статин».

07:07
But there’s a question you should ask at this point, a statistic you should ask for that most doctors don’t like talking about, and pharmaceutical companies like talking about even less. It’s for the number needed to treat. Now, what is this, the NNT? It’s the number of people that need to take a drug or undergo a surgery or any medical procedure before one person is helped. And you’re thinking, what kind of crazy statistic is that? The number should be one. My doctor wouldn’t prescribe something to me if it’s not going to help. But actually, medical practice doesn’t work that way. And it’s not the doctor’s fault, if it’s anybody’s fault, it’s the fault of scientists like me. We haven’t figured out the underlying mechanisms well enough. But GlaxoSmithKline estimates that 90 percent of the drugs work in only 30 to 50 percent of the people. So the number needed to treat for the most widely prescribed statin, what do you suppose it is? How many people have to take it before one person is helped? 300. This is according to research by research practitioners Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband, independently confirmed by Bloomberg.com. I ran through the numbers myself. 300 people have to take the drug for a year before one heart attack, stroke or other adverse event is prevented.

07:06
Но тут вам бы стоило задаться вопросом, уточнить число, о котором врачи не любят говорить, а уж фармацевтические компании — и того меньше: количество нуждающихся в лечении (КНЛ). Что такое КНЛ? Это количество людей, которые должны принять лекарство, пройти хирургическую операцию или другую медицинскую процедуру, чтобы хотя бы один из них был излечен. Вы думаете: что за странная статистика? Разве оно не равно 1? Врач не станет назначать мне лекарство, которое не поможет. Однако медицина так не работает. И в том нет вины доктора. Если кто и виноват, так это учёные вроде меня. Мы до сих пор не разобрались с базовыми механизмами. По оценке компании GlaxoSmithKline, 90% лекарств срабатывают только для 30—50% пациентов. Так каково же, по вашему мнению, число нуждающихся в лечении для статина? Скольким людям надо его принять, чтобы один излечился? 300. Таково это число, согласно исследованию специалистов-практиков Джерома Групмана и Памелы Харцбанд, независимо подтверждённое агентством Bloomberg. Я и сам всё перепроверил. 300 человек должны принимать статин на протяжении года, чтобы предотвратить один инсульт, инфаркт или другое несчастье.

08:24
Now you’re probably thinking, “Well, OK, one in 300 chance of lowering my cholesterol. Why not, doc? Give me the prescription anyway.” But you should ask at this point for another statistic, and that is, “Tell me about the side effects.” Right? So for this particular drug, the side effects occur in five percent of the patients. And they include terrible things — debilitating muscle and joint pain, gastrointestinal distress — but now you’re thinking, “Five percent, not very likely it’s going to happen to me, I’ll still take the drug.” But wait a minute. Remember under stress you’re not thinking clearly. So think about how you’re going to work through this ahead of time, so you don’t have to manufacture the chain of reasoning on the spot. 300 people take the drug, right? One person’s helped, five percent of those 300 have side effects, that’s 15 people. You’re 15 times more likely to be harmed by the drug than you are to be helped by the drug.

08:24
Вы, вероятно, думаете: «Что ж, 1 шанс из 300, что мой холестерол понизится. Почему бы и нет? Всё равно прописывайте». Но тут нужно расспросить о другой статистике, а именно: «Каковы побочные действия?» От этого лекарства побочные действия возникают у 5% пациентов. А среди них — ужасающие вещи: изнуряющая боль в мышцах и суставах, желудочно-кишечные расстройства. Но вы говорите себе: «5%. Маловероятно, что это буду я. Всё равно буду принимать». Но подождите-ка. Помните, во время стресса вы не мыслите ясно. Каким было бы ваше умозаключение, подготовьтесь вы заранее, чтобы не выстраивать цепь рассуждений на месте? 300 человек приняли лекарство. Одному оно помогло. У 5% из 300 пациентов проявились побочные эффекты, а это 15 человек. У вас в 15 раз больше шансов, что лекарство вам навредит, чем поможет.

09:16
Now, I’m not saying whether you should take the statin or not. I’m just saying you should have this conversation with your doctor. Medical ethics requires it, it’s part of the principle of informed consent. You have the right to have access to this kind of information to begin the conversation about whether you want to take the risks or not.

09:16
Я не говорю вам, принимать статин или нет. Я только обращаю ваше внимание на важность этого разговора с врачом. Этого требует медицинская этика. Это и есть информированное согласие. У вас есть право доступа к подобного рода информации, чтобы задуматься о том, готовы ли вы к таким рискам или нет.

09:33
Now you might be thinking I’ve pulled this number out of the air for shock value, but in fact it’s rather typical, this number needed to treat. For the most widely performed surgery on men over the age of 50, removal of the prostate for cancer, the number needed to treat is 49. That’s right, 49 surgeries are done for every one person who’s helped. And the side effects in that case occur in 50 percent of the patients. They include impotence, erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, rectal tearing, fecal incontinence. And if you’re lucky, and you’re one of the 50 percent who has these, they’ll only last for a year or two.

09:33
Вам может казаться, что я взял это число КНЛ с потолка, чтобы шокировать вас, но на самом деле оно типично, данное число нуждающихся в лечении. Для самой часто проводимой операции на мужчинах в возрасте старше 50 лет, удаления простаты при раке, это число равно 49. Всё верно, 49 операций, чтобы помочь одному человеку. А побочные эффекты возникают в данном случае у 50% пациентов. Среди них импотенция, эректильная дисфункция, недержание мочи, разрыв прямой кишки, недержание кала. И если вам «повезло» быть среди этих 50%, длиться эти побочные действия будут «всего» год или два.

10:12
So 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. You don’t want to have to manufacture all of this on the spot. And you also want to think about things like quality of life. Because you have a choice oftentimes, do you I want a shorter life that’s pain-free, or a longer life that might have a great deal of pain towards the end? These are things to talk about and think about now, with your family and your loved ones. You might change your mind in the heat of the moment, but at least you’re practiced with this kind of thinking.

10:12
Итак, смысл премортема — обдумывать заранее вопросы, которые стóит задать, чтобы выстроить беседу грамотно. Думать о них на месте — не в ваших интересах. Имеет смысл спросить и о качестве жизни. Ведь зачастую выбор есть: вас больше устроит короткая, но безболезненная жизнь или долгая жизнь, но с сильными болями под конец? Об этих вещах нужно думать и говорить сейчас — с семьёй и любимыми. Может, вы сгоряча и передумаете, но вы хотя бы задумались над этими вопросами.

10:45
Remember, our brain under stress releases cortisol, and one of the things that happens at that moment is a whole bunch on systems shut down. There’s an evolutionary reason for this. Face-to-face with a predator, you don’t need your digestive system, or your libido, or your immune system, because if you’re body is expending metabolism on those things and you don’t react quickly, you might become the lion’s lunch, and then none of those things matter. Unfortunately, one of the things that goes out the window during those times of stress is rational, logical thinking, as Danny Kahneman and his colleagues have shown. So we need to train ourselves to think ahead to these kinds of situations.

10:45
Помните, в стрессовой ситуации мозг вырабатывает кортизол, и тогда, в тот же самый момент, многие системы прекращают работать. Тому есть обоснованная эволюцией причина. Когда вы сталкиваетесь с хищником, вам не нужны ни система пищеварения, ни половой инстинкт, ни иммунная система, ведь если тело расходует на всё это метаболизм, а вы не отреагируете мгновенно, то можете стать обедом льва, и тогда ничто из этого уже не важно. К сожалению, одной из систем, отметаемых при стрессе, является и рациональное, логическое мышление, как показали Дэнни Канеман и его коллеги. Поэтому нам нужно научиться продумывать вещи заранее для подобных ситуаций.

11:27
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.

11:27
Думаю, важно также осознавать, что все мы несовершенны. Время от времени что-то будет не получаться. Смысл в том, чтобы продумать, какими могут быть наши промахи, внедрить систему, которая поможет минимизировать ущерб или же предотвратить плохое.

11:48
Getting back to that snowy night in Montreal, when I got back from my trip, I had my contractor install a combination lock next to the door, with a key to the front door in it, an easy to remember combination. And I have to admit, I still have piles of mail that haven’t been sorted, and piles of emails that I haven’t gone through. So I’m not completely organized, but I see organization as a gradual process, and I’m getting there.

11:48
Возвращаясь к той снежной ночи в Монреале: когда я вернулся из поездки, я попросил подрядчика установить кодовый замок на двери с ключом к входной двери и простой комбинацией. Признаюсь, у меня до сих пор есть неразобранные залежи почты и куча не просмотренных электронных писем. Так что я не абсолютно организован, но я воспринимаю организованность как постепенный процесс и потихоньку достигну этого.

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

If you guys don’t want hypertension conditions so just realize it that most of the ppl in 40’s nowadays have it, so take the precautions and do the premorterm as he says maybe🙃

hello i am from nepal

Haha so rightly said

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

Honestly I think being a neuroscientist would be even more stressful because you’re always wondering what’s going on in your brain chemistry. Do you know any car mechanics? One little weird noise that they hear from their car they will spend all evening and even into the night trying to figure out what’s causing it. I’ve seen him stay outside at 2:00 in the morning with basically no light tinkering with something that wasn’t even really a problem. One thing though with him is he hasn’t learned a lesson of if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Frusted then join us..

He is human too. 🙂

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

To think about solutions unless the stress

Lol this is where anxiety started

Premortem hindsight: imagine you lost your car keys. Where would you have put them?
It just comes natural to me. No need for a neuro scientist

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

Always prepared for worst otherwise tough to survive

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 ☺️

I thought I was alone in this

@Ma Ya same situation

@Ma Ya basically what he is saying is that it comes down to anticipating possible problems and having systems in place that will allow you to come out with the least damage possible or even avoid the problem in the first place, and ultimately control your stress.

That was an incredible lecture, I completely agree with the speaker, and I think that our body start this defense mechanism not only when we are in dangerous, but when we are in an awkward situation or when we are facing a difficult new challenge. Beyond this, I believe that situation still effect our respiratory system. Automatically we start to breathe slowly, and this probably affects our full body, mainly or digestion system and brain system. All these reactions to prepare us to a probable scape. Anyway, thank you professor for all your sharing.

Ohhh thank you so much Daniel, to make the things much clear to us about stress and how our body work during it is high! Wishing you good health!

«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.

Frusted then join us..

i’d been watching TED and became a huge fan since the program launched few years ago.. i agree that over the years there has been issues and flaws with their programs but still very helpful to alot of people. love TED

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.

Extremely beneficial!! Thank you for telling us how to handle things in advance.

Really Great Ted Talk. I’m the biggest skeptic of doctors and coventional medicine and still your statistics even surprised me. Big eye opener which should be publicized a lot more. Most people are quite likely oblivious to these facts. I favor nutritional medicine and basic simple health choices such as diet, don’t drink smoke or drug, low sugar intake etc. Thanks for your effort. Really. 😎

Thinking ahead helped me become more stressed.
Thanks.

But just for a while.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH! you’ve misinterpreted it.

Most people I know, and I, already are plenty good at ‘pre-stressing’ about things. I did not resonate with this. I think more people can learn how to breathe and think through things in the moment, not stress about things before they occur.

Think ahead. Systems work. Bullshit on the pharmacology.

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.

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

Paranoia is a mental problem bro

@malgré tout you hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh1hhzf

What is paranoia?

When he said that, i was like thats just my overthinking and anxiety kickin in

Always think positive whatever situation you are in,never let those negative thoughts ruin your day be happy keep smiling u never know whos fallin’ in love by the smile ur making😁

Great Video. It is important to listen to videos like this. It makes you rethink the strategy. Relax, calm your mind and body, work out!

This. made me feel more stressed. I’m one of those people who spends far too much time thinking about what could go wrong.

You’re not alone

Thanks sir. Best solution is to maintain the 5 «S» in your home office kitchen and your working place.
1. S is Sort
2. S is set in order
3. S is shine
4. S is standardised
5. S is Self discipline

If you’re in a stressful situation right now, I hope it works out for you.

I somehow devised exactly the same method of pre-mortem intuitively to keep away from getting stressed, years before seeing this talk. Glad to hear this talk as well!

This is the secret to staying calm even in a stressful situation. Thank God I figured it out

Awesome talk! Very basic and powerful questions to ask yourself and your doctor.

Thank you for the great video, i learned alot and help to cope my stress..😊

Very useful information indeed. I had a boss that told me once. «The wrong thisgs happens to teach us how they can be done right»

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LOVED IT. Was a technique taught to me during fatigue management after brain injury, but the problem with brain injury is you can only have so many techniques before they start slipping off the edge into the void and become forgotten. Thank you for the refresher, I still have some things to strategise but not as many as I started with.

So, the idea is to have a system in place for small things (or things that irritates you regularly), so that you don’t have to stress about them everytime.

This video will help me stay calm during this hard time. Maybe before my next blood draw appointment I’ll watch this video over and over again.

One of the guests in our show also said that three actions help to energize him on a hard day: breathing deeply, thinking about good experiences and concentrating on the immediate steps that lie ahead.

It’s so useful for me. I need to train myself to think ahead to these kinds of situations. And learn to put systems in place that will help to minimize the damage, or to prevent the bad things from happening in the first place.

Wow, this opened my eyes and mind. This is a genius video. Much appreciated this, sir.

One thing about anxiety I’ve noticed is that I’m anxious I’ll forget something, do something incorrectly, get yelled at, not plan accordingly, etc, etc. I always plan ahead because I’m too anxious to not plan ahead, therefore I’m always anxious. I’m anxious about the fact that I’m anxious, even. Idk if I learned anything new here tbh but it was a nice TED talk.

Legends are those who can bear pain without expressing it ❤️

I love this talk. I been very stress lately

To stay calm when you know you’ll stressed, you need to prepare for the stressful situations which can happen in the future. That’s his point.

How you can maintain your stress,calm when you argument with anyone?

This is the most human talk I have ever listened to. We don’t have to be perfect. We just need to find ways to make things better for ourselves, gradually.

Now I am stressed about things I never ever thought before.. thanks to this video

I was kind of skeptical before watching the video cuz i readthe comments but now that i have watched it i feel the technique is genuinely helpful and not only a neuroscientist but others as well suggest premortem technique
And i think so it simply translates into rational and practical thinking.
Without being falsely positive we can accept that there’s a likelihood that things might go wrong and this acceptance is the key to alleviation of that panic cuz you can decide ur steps in that situation beforehand when you are in a saner condition.
Ultimately it’s not the stress that we want to go away it’s the problem that is to be solved stress just becomes an obstacle. Seriously I don’t know why others aren’t getting the point.

Rewatching this video made me realize how I was applying this on my daily life before college days. My friend used to say how relaxed I am most of the time. I already anticipated and I am prepared for what to happen. Going to ollege is less predi

I reckon relieving stress and learning how to act under stressfull circumstances is a top point at any time. I’d say the speaker gave us a piece of advice that is worth implementing. But if you’d like to immerse yourself into the topic I’d recommend to search for some more info. Still the idea that one can do smth useful even in situation of stress is rather uplifting.

It does not tell us how to not get stressed. It tells us not to. Not quite the same thing.