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

TED 2015
Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed (script)
Summary
Our brain releases cortisol which is toxic when it performs under stress. However, it cannot be stopped. It raises our heart rate, it modulates adrenaline levels and it clouds our thinking. Additionally, we all are going to fail sometimes. We have to recognize that all of us are flawed.
Thus we need to train ourselves to think ahead to these kinds of situations. It's called pre-mortem which you look ahead and you try to figure out what you can do to prevent wrong things from happening or to minimize the damage.
If you prepare something or you think ahead of time to the questions that you might be able to ask that will push the conversation forward, you can avoid the worst situations.
You are probably busy every day. It means that you are in stress. Pre-mortem keeps you calm.