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    "How To Stay Calm When You Know You'll Be Stressed" by Daniel Levitin

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    Daniel Levitin, author of "This Is Your Brain On Music", gave a talk about staying calm under stress. He discussed using prospective hindsight to anticipate problems and minimize damage. Levitin explained that stress causes cortisol levels to rise, resulting in cloudy thinking and shutting down of digestive and other systems. He recommended thinking ahead to implement systems that promote rational thinking when stress occurs.

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    Andres Gutierrez

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

    Halfway through the talk I realized that this was THE Daniel Levitin, author
    of This Is Your Brain On Music, a book I studied in my Psychology of Music class
    last semester and that I very much enjoyed. Levitin, a well-trained neuroscientist,
    begins his talk by narrating an anecdote of him facing a highly stressful situation
    which just kept getting worse due to the cloudy thinking

    PROSPECTIVE HINDSIGHT GARY KLEIN (OR PRE-MORTEM) Look ahead and


    try to figure out what could go wrong and strategize what you could do to prevent
    them or to at least minimize the damage

    Designate a place for things that are easily lost hippocampus (where
    important things are located)

    Cortisol is toxic and results in cloudy thinking

    Decision making --- Number needed to treat (How many people are to be
    treated before it works? 90% of drugs work in only 30 -50% of people) Ex. Statin for
    cholesterol = 300 ppl need to be treated before 1 is helped.

    Side effects? (5%)

    During stress, a number of systems shut down = digestive, libido, etc .


    AAAND RATIONAL THINKING!!!!

    Think ahead and put systems in place. A cautious man is worth twice as
    much.

    The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong by Amy Morin

    The perfect friend with the perfect adventures and the perfect photos and blessings.

    Envying friends on fb leads to depression (research) --- rolling eyes for 5 secs

    What our bad habits cost us

    3 kinds of destructive beliefs:

    1. Unhealthy beliefs about ourselves. Self-pity. Magnification of misfortune. Why


    me?
    2. Unhealthy beliefs about others. Thinking others can control us. Its up to us
    how to respond to seemingly abusive people.
    3. Unhealthy beliefs about the world. We think the universe owes us something.
    Andres Gutierrez

    We all sooner or later hit a time in which we need all the mental health we can
    muster.

    Speaker talks about her mother having a completely unexpected brain aneurysm
    and died from one day to another. 3 years later her husband had a heart attack at 26,
    completely unexpectedly.

    In tough times, good habits are not enough. It only takes one or two small bad habits
    to bring you down.

    Remarried, new husbands father is diagnosed with terminal cancer, dies.

    Mental strength comes from the elimination of bad habits.

    Resenting other peoples success.

    Avoiding discomfort. Postponing it.

    Compare yourself only against yourself yesterday.

    Acceptance of lifes unfairness. Not necessarily rewarded for suffering or good


    deeds.

    The world is what you make it?! --- nah

    Tiny improvements. No big heroic transformations.

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