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Lyndon B. Johnson was recognized for his histrionics — his customary response to minor ache or sickness was “frantic” and “hysterical,” wrote Robert Caro for the New Yorker in 2012. However when below stress — actual stress, as he was the day he grew to become president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated — Johnson assumed a close to preternatural calm.
As Caro writes, “Johnson’s aides and allies knew that, for all his rages and his bellowing, his gloating and his groaning, his countless monologues, his demeanor was very completely different in moments of disaster, in moments when there have been selections — robust selections, essential selections — to be made; that in these moments he grew to become, as his secretary Mary Relatively recalled, ‘quiet and nonetheless.'”
Sure folks appear designed to carry out nicely below moments of intense stress. As an entrepreneur, it is definitely a ability you’d do nicely to develop. Analysis carried out by TalentSmart discovered that 90% of high performers can handle their feelings in occasions of stress and stay calm and in management.
