The 60-second reset leaders use before high-stakes meetings
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Speaker 1: When you're in a high stress situation, your thinking and how you see opportunities, it narrows down like this. You need to reset your nervous system. The first thing you do is recognize what's happening right now. What emotion are you feeling? Then you need to do a reset. And one of the coolest things about positive psychology is doing some very simple things to calm down your nervous system. If you can calm your nervous system, then you can again access the thinking part of your brain and your thinking goes back up like that. Breathing four breaths in, six out or you can try the box breathing, whatever it is. Fastest way to regulate your nervous system. There's a reason why people have panic attacks. They put their head between the legs and say breathe. So breath is one of those things that has an instant impact on your nervous system. First thing you do is you recognize I'm freaking out. And then you say, I'm going to take a few breaths. And then what that does is it calms everything down. That's a super simple technique that you can do right
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