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Lyndon B. Johnson was identified 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 underneath stress — actual stress, as he was the day he turned 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 limitless monologues, his demeanor was very completely different in moments of disaster, in moments when there have been choices — powerful choices, essential choices — to be made; that in these moments he turned, as his secretary Mary Slightly recalled, ‘quiet and nonetheless.'”
Sure individuals appear designed to carry out effectively underneath moments of intense stress. As an entrepreneur, it is actually a ability you’d do effectively to develop. Analysis performed by TalentSmart discovered that 90% of prime performers can handle their feelings in instances of stress and stay calm and in management.
