Dr. Calm argues that maintaining calmness yields multiple practical benefits: improved focus, the ability to switch attention and multitask effectively, better task completion, and reduced interpersonal conflict through non-reactivity. The speaker illustrates these points with informal examples (taking a phone call while noticing other tasks) and concludes that calm people are happier and achieve better outcomes across jobs and relationships.
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Calmness are your healing waters. When you're calm consistently in your life, you can focus on whatever that you want to do, finish the task on time, even multitask when you are distracted. You can't even do one task properly when you are calm. I could be talking to you and then I get a phone call. I take the phone call and meanwhile maybe Danny is saying something. And then I had to attend to that. And then I notice some problem with the slide here. And then I tell Jerry, hey, Jerry. So I can notice so many things when I am calm. And that gives me the ability to multitask, take focus on one thing to another to come back. And that is how we improve our performance. No matter what your job is, we have are going to improve our performance. And people who are calm. People who are calm are naturally happy too, isn't it? Do you like to stay people who are restless and stressed around you, or do you want people who are calm and relaxed? Because people, when they're restless and stressed, they're always reactive and they don't listen to you and you're trying to say something and they don't understand you. And then soon you get upset or they get upset and then you start fighting. That is how conflicts happen. But when you're in a calm and relaxed mode, you're like, okay, I'm going to listen. Even this other person is blaming you or saying bad things about your life. Okay? Non reactive, you will respond wisely to the situation, right? That is how you prevent problems in the first place. So all the positive things because of calmness, ultimately you get good outcomes.