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- Nina Schwarting: What can you do when suddenly everything important time? Many leaderships know the problem. You look at your job list or your email inbox and think, hallelujah, everything at the same time. This happens especially in phases with many meetings, many decisions or when very much and very high responsibility is carried. There can be feeling that I don't know where my head is and where I start. It's very interesting if we it from neuroscientific view, when the nervous system into this alarm mode, the way we think and act So typical, for example, we in a mental loop, that everything is urgent and that the anxiety also comes in. If I prioritize then there is a problem. I must not anything case. I have everything in view. This sounds like a but fact the nervous system is in a tunnel and can black and white and can't look strategically. This also leads to person getting more inside into this unrest. This pressure can this over-emphasis, which I a slight irritation. And yes, if you it yourself, there are definitely physical signals. They are actually always the first ones that come in, who say, hey, I think there's a topic you should take look These are physical signals like tension in the or a faster pulse or just the feeling of being under current, which can very quickly. ⁓ In behavior it is also very easy to but also very easy for others, because there are some typical patterns that people live through, if they are so busy and in the over-reaction and have a lot on the table. These are patterns such as jumping back forth constantly checking or many things, but a few. So are faster in reacting. than in conscious strategic decisions. The problem here is that you work a lot, really a lot, but it still doesn't productive and is not productive because when the strategic outlook is missing, the follow-up costs are course always higher. If we look at what in the brain, it very exciting to observe that our alarm system takes in the brain This alarm system is mainly the amygdala that in these moments, while same time the prefrontal cortex, which more responsible for planning and for prerogation, is being driven down, it is no longer... as as in regulated states where we usually. This has the consequence that our brain can longer on strategic things and rationally and be but that the focus is now very much to potential threats. Which the consequence that suddenly every task appears equally important for the person. What can you in such situations when you already inside and want to your head of soon possible? A very simple thing, a walk. The easiest way to this state is to for while and really a short while. You don't a marathon or do anything sports, but it's enough to short while. 20 steps, much as you I to 1-2 minutes and slowly, really slowly walk and the same to into the distance, away from this screen, don't look at the mobile phone or something, but simply look into the distance and briefly That's enough. This exercise is super super valuable because it this stressed state, when we really tunnel-view, where we can't distinguish so and only in black and white, because our nervous system evolutionarily believes we are in a dangerous situation. These little exercises us to out of this, to our view. and our nervous system to be so it orient again, the overview again and feel less threatening in these moments. The nervous system then out of this alarm mode and also the prefrontal cortex can then the function again. exactly, what leadership needs in such drastic situations, can clearly prioritize and is also capable and it's not all immediately urgent. It doesn't any sense because we know that all emails are not threats, it's not about life-threatening. But our body is always three steps faster. Our nervous system, our control device, always autonomously whether we safe or in danger or even in danger and act accordingly. And if we are not fully conscious, as in this example, we can this MITSY and we are in this circle so that everything is equally important and relevant and we just work more and work but less comes out. That's why this exercise to this circle of to get to full consciousness, a regulated nervous system, where then the neocortex and then you back to to see what is really important. And, surprise surprise, often it out that not everything is important. So, try then you will remember the moments when you really need