Natalie Fisher explains how catastrophizing before interviews is your brain trying to protect you. Instead of fighting it, ask yourself: if the worst happens, what do I do next? This mental rehearsal convinces your brain you can handle it, which actually reduces anxiety and improves performance.
So if you are somebody who is nervous about public speaking or you are nervous about interviewing, you will need to tell yourself some things that are going to calm you. Okay, so I'll just paint a picture here as an example. Somebody who's really nervous about an interview or an important meeting, they're going to probably start catastrophizing, which is a word for imagining the worst-case scenario, playing out the worst-case scenario. That's what our brain does, and it's to protect us so that we maybe won't go, or so that we maybe will think we can prepare for it better, right? I want to help you use it to your advantage. So if you are catastrophizing and you say, okay, what if they don't like me? What if they don't resonate with what I say? What if I freeze during the time I have to answer? I want you to ask yourself, okay, say that happens. What would I do next? Okay, and that's just going to tell your brain that you can handle it.
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