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

The reality is considered somewhat typical, since this number needs treatment for surgical operations performed on a large section of men over 50 years of age who have had their prostate removed due to cancer. The number of people who needed treatment was 49. That's right, 49 surgeries. They were performed on all people who had their prostate removed and the side effects in this case appeared in 50 percent of the patients, including impotence, erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, rectal fissure and fecal incontinence, and if you are lucky . You are one of the 50 percent who suffer from this, you will survive for a year or more.

So the idea before the event is to think about all of these questions at once, and you will. I want to think about things like quality of life because you often have a choice: do you want a short life without pain or a long life that may even be full of pain at the end? There are things you should talk and think about now with your family and loved ones. You may change your mind in a moment of emotion, but at least you have practiced this type of thinking. Remember that the brain secretes cortisol under pressure. and one of the things that happens right now is that a bunch of functions stop working there.

The reason I evolved for this is that

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you're face to face with a predator, you don't need your digestive system or your digestive system. libido, or your immune system, because if your body doesn't metabolize these things and you don't respond quickly to the matter, you can become food for a lion, and then none of these things matter, unfortunately, one of the things that can dissipate in times The pressure is rational, logical thinking, as Danny Kahneman and his colleagues have shown. Therefore, we must train ourselves to think ahead in such situations. has a defect. We will all be exposed to failure from time to time.

The idea is to think ahead of time about what those faults might be to make arrangements that can help you minimize damage or prevent bad things from happening in the first place. Going back to that snowy night in Montreal

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I returned from my trip, the contractor. I installed a combination lock next to the door that included the key to the front door and made it easy to remember the numbers. I must admit that I still have tons of mail that I haven't sorted yet and tons of emails that I haven't sorted. They look at me like I'm completely disorganized but I see organization as a gradual process and I will be. thank you so much. (applause)