From the course: Decision-Making in High-Stress Situations
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Increasing your stress tolerance in decision-making
From the course: Decision-Making in High-Stress Situations
Increasing your stress tolerance in decision-making
- One excellent way to improve your decision making under stressful situations is to increase your stress tolerance. It's not about eliminating stress. It's about tolerating stress. Increasing your stress tolerance improves your relationship with stress, how you perceive stress. The first step is to recognize that not all stress is bad. You're about to be called up on stage to accept an award. You're about to say, "I do." The good stress is called eustress. Then there's the distressing stress, uncertainty, lack of confidence, unpredictability. Stress tolerance is a willingness to engage, accept, and harness anxiety associated with doubt and uncertainty and unpredictability, things that cause stress. You need stress tolerance for curiosity, to be comfortable with uncertainty, to explore things you don't know, to expose yourself to enough experiences to draw on, and to collect enough resources for good decision making.…
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