Stress clouds our thinking, and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin explains an interesting, common sense way to handle stressful situations. Basically, you manage stress before it even happens by performing what his colleague Gary Klein calls a “premortem.”
We all know what a postmortem is, right? In the business world, after a project has failed, you look back to see what went wrong. A premortem turns that idea on its head, challenging you to think of possible failure scenarios before even getting started. It might sound like a gloom-and-doom way to plan, but there are decades of research showing that this technique works. And it turns out that it doesn’t just work for project management. It works in everyday life.
Think of possible failure scenarios before even getting started.
