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

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

This video has an interesting title which attracted me to have a look at it as I need to get myself calm when I am stressed as I keep forgetting where I put my belongings when I am stressed.

There are few tips that speaker has provided in the video to relieve stress.

• Exercise
• Meditate
• Eat healthy
• Get creative
• Be organised
• Take breaks

Under stress our brain releases Cortisol due to which a bunch of sensing systems shutdown. These lead to loss of ability to think rationally and logically. This can lead to faliure of the task you are assigned with. So, the speaker says that the best solution for this kind of problem is to pre organise your stuff and think how you may fail and overcome the consequences that lead to faliure. This Pre-Mortem would always help putting people out of stress. 

The next thing I found interesting was about Hippocampus. This is a structure of your brain which has been evolving for years and this keeps track of locations of important things. That is the reason why we tend to forget the locations of things we keep moving around in stress. To solve this we need to allocate a location to things and get used to putting them there. This triggers the Hippocampus to remember the location and you don't forget it.

The speaker finally concludes with an important note saying we all are going to fail now and then. The idea is to think ahead what the faliures might be and put things in place to minimise the damage.