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It's easy to give up when times are tough and things aren't going your way. That's what 98% of the world will do. No stamina, no patience and no fight. The other 2% who start with nothing, will begin to live the life of their dreams because they simply MAKE A DECISION...

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Use Neuroscience to Remain Calm Under Pressure By Geoffrey James

"The ability to keep your wits in a crisis isn't a character trait; it's a skill that you can learn in minutes."

Great leaders always seem to remain calm during situations that make mere mortals fall to pieces. Conventional wisdom says that the ability to remain calm is a character trait that most of us lack.

Neuroscience, however, has recently revealed that remaining calm under pressure is not an inborn trait, but a skill that anybody can learn.

Here's how it's done:

1. Understand the biochemistry.

The opposite of remaining calm is the state of "fight or flight," a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.

The reaction starts when two segments of your brain called the amygdalae interpret a situation as a threat. This perception causes your brain to secrete hormones that tell your nervous system to prepare your body to take drastic action. Your breath gets short, your body floods your muscles with blood, your peripheral vision goes away, and so forth.

Since neither fight nor flight are appropriate in business situations, your body never gets a release. Instead, your hyped-up body tells your brain "Yes, this is a real threat!" and you end up with your brain and body in a feedback loop. To put it colloquially, you freak out.

In this state, chances are extremely high that you'll either remain frozen in fear like a deer in headlights or, driven to release the pressure, you'll say or do something stupid.

What are the other 3 points?

Continue reading the article:

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/use-neuroscience-to-remain-calm-under-pressure.html

Have a great ahead!

What's Your State of Mind?

It is about our state of mind and what we expect to see...

Want to see sadness...you could see a deep sense of sadness even in the most cheerful face of Santa-Claus. Want to see happiness? You could see that even in this humble pair of cheerful slip-ons!

You could see sadness in the happiest of moments...you could see happiness in the saddest of times. Change your inner expectations and let negativity not flow onto others. Abra-ca-Dabra....do that and you will see sad faces smile and happy faces laugh louder than what you could imagine.

It is all about how you feel at that moment of time.

Mediocre Talent is good Talent... Because it is easily manageable!

Those were the words of an HR Director who obviously busted all understanding on Business Excellence through formidable Human Capital. He wanted the mediocre & under average was fine too - but not the good who he was weeding anyway. In his view strong leaders were “high maintenance".

"There are times when static is good and aggressive growth is not the demand " he said. Upon being asked who decides this - the answer was amusing. He decided that :-) Mediocre was need because the brilliant & capable, gave him acidity & a sense of inadequacy.

We can see how such a leader is a stunner who will dwarf the company in the long run. But who is to bear this cross? This has more to do with the organisation than the leader. Management, who allows the entry of such virus, is entirely responsible. 

Rich org see more of this disease than the bootstrapped or entrepreneur run org because they become over tolerant. At times a company that wants to maintain footprint but does not see value in the region, hires someone like this. The other is management who wants a puppet that is not particularly bright, but the company ends up experiencing the side effects of compromise. 

Bad talent at the top - JUST no excuses for that!