How to Stay Calm When Someone Is Yelling at You

Calm the Chaos with Rich Christiansen · Sep 9, 2026 · 16m · transcript

I spend most of my day believing I'm a high-functioning, analytical human being. The truth is that a good portion of it, I'm running on my limbic brain, where there are really only three questions. Do I eat it, kill it, or mate with it?

I learned the fix for this mindset from a professional athlete's setup routine.

I was backstage at Gathering of Titans talking with Bo Eason, a former safety who later did a one-man show on Broadway. Mid-conversation, he sprinted backwards, walked up to me, and did it again. I thought it was the world's most awkward nervous tic. He looked at me and said…