How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed
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Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there's a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded — the pre-mortem. "We all are going to fail now and then," he says. "The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be."
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Briefly describe the idea of prospective hindsight, citing the two examples that Levitin gives in his talk.
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