Levitin Summary

I understand Levitin’s point of view comprehending how to stay calm when you’re stressed. Levitin’s main idea is that there’s a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations if you think ahead of time. I agree with Levitin by knowing how stressful it feels to be anxious, tense, or pushed to the limit. I’ve been pressured before playing soccer as a defender making one simple mistake provoking the whole game. Levitin states Gary Klein’s writing on pre-mortem and how is helps to save any project from failure. Levitin explains hippocampus and how it’s essentially in our brain. Levitin also explains that if you ask for professional help, to think ahead of time and look for possible for the possible outcomes. I will now explain about pre-mortem and how it’s used, hippocampus and how it helps you, and time so you don’t have to go to the doctor and persuade you to take drugs you don’t need. The psychologist, Gary Klein, explains that Pre-mortem is a mechanism that helps you to think ahead of time and minimize a problem. Levitin states that pre mortem helped him to “designate a spot” to all of his dilemma so they won’t happen again. Levitin is a scrupulous person by designating a …show more content…
Levitin explains, “There's a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, that evolved over tens of thousands of years, to keep track of the locations of important things -- where the well is, where fish can be found, that stand of fruit trees, where the friendly and enemy tribes live. The hippocampus is the part of the brain that in London taxicab drivers becomes enlarged. It's the part of the brain that allows squirrels to find their nuts.” This explains how not only humans but animals have hippocampus in our brain and how to use it properly. During stressful situations people tend to lose thing easily, thinking ahead of time and remembering where those thing go is a much more convenient