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

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A few years ago, I broke into my own house.

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I had just driven home,

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it was around midnight in the dead of Montreal winter,

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I had been visiting my friend, Jeff, across town,

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and the thermometer on the front porch read minus 40 degrees --

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and don't bother asking if that's Celsius or Fahrenheit,

00:30

minus 40 is where the two scales meet --

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it was very cold.

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And as I stood on the front porch fumbling in my pockets,

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I found I didn't have my keys.

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In fact, I could see them through the window,

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lying on the dining room table where I had left them.

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So I quickly ran around and tried all the other doors and windows,

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and they were locked tight.

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I thought about calling a locksmith -- at least I had my cellphone,

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but at midnight, it could take a while for a locksmith to show up,

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and it was cold.

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I couldn't go back to my friend Jeff's house for the night

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because I had an early flight to Europe the next morning,

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and I needed to get my passport and my suitcase.

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So, desperate and freezing cold,

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I found a large rock and I broke through the basement window,

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cleared out the shards of glass,

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I crawled through,

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I found a piece of cardboard and taped it up over the opening,

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figuring that in the morning, on the way to the airport,

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I could call my contractor and ask him to fix it.

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This was going to be expensive,

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but probably no more expensive than a middle-of-the-night locksmith,

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so I figured, under the circumstances, I was coming out even.

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Now, I'm a neuroscientist by training

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and I know a little bit about how the brain performs under stress.

01:43

It releases cortisol that raises your heart rate,

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it modulates adrenaline levels

01:49

and it clouds your thinking.

01:51

So the next morning,

01:53

when I woke up on too little sleep,

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worrying about the hole in the window,

01:58

and a mental note that I had to call my contractor,

02:01

and the freezing temperatures,

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and the meetings I had upcoming in Europe,

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and, you know, with all the cortisol in my brain,

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my thinking was cloudy,

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but I didn't know it was cloudy because my thinking was cloudy.

02:13

(Laughter)

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And it wasn't until I got to the airport check-in counter,

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that I realized I didn't have my passport.

02:20

(Laughter)

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So I raced home in the snow and ice, 40 minutes,

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got my passport, raced back to the airport,

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I made it just in time,

02:30

but they had given away my seat to someone else,

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