From the course: Leading with Fearless Mindfulness

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Managing stress and delegating

Managing stress and delegating

- In those scenarios, when you're under that stress, it's constant stress, constant. And you're managing all these crew and then trying to figure out what's next, how to stay safe, but at the same time stay calm, and for some reason I was very calm. What I want to emphasize is whatever employment you're in, pay attention during your training 'cause it pays off, and my training paid off. My training paid off, and the other thing I did was I called my sister on the satellite phone and gave her our latitude and longitude, and that was my solution five, that if we were indeed captured before the warship showed up that my sister would go to the embassy within 30 minutes and let them know our last-known position. Now at that point, I just had to have faith that is the pirates going to come first or is it the warship? And, you know, thankfully it was a warship, but, in this lesson, it is about maintaining the calm in the midst of…

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