Train Calm Before Chaos Hits

The strongest person in the room isn’t the loudest—it’s the calmest when pressure spikes. Practice hard things on purpose and watch everything else feel smaller.

Stop reacting to the headlines like everyone else. Start training composure on purpose. At a leadership summit, the top negotiators were not the loudest. They were the calmest person in the room when stakes got stupid high. That is the lesson. Do hard things on purpose. Take the hard call first. Sit in the awkward silence. Ask the second question. And this is where it gets interesting. When you practice staying steady under stress, normal problems shrink fast. You make cleaner decisions, waste less time, and people trust you more. Hard things do not break you. They recalibrate your baseline.