10:58 not performing at your best when all eyes are on you.
16:50 [In stressful situations] we're often very confident we've communicated clearly...but our ability to accurately gauge whether someone else actually understood it is what gets diminished [when we're stressed]
20:30 We only have so much working memory...e.g. talking on cell phone while driving.
23:00 when we've learned [a skill] so well that we're actually on autopilot, it's better not to focus on all the details. So sometimes our working memory can actually get in the way. e.g. walking down the stairs quickly, but if asked to concentrate on how you move your knee while doing it, you are more likely to fall.
24:35 the key is to have brain power at your disposal, but be able to turn it off when that brain power is a problem
36:00 Exposure to the stressor makes you better able to handle the stress.
38:10 reinterpret adrenaline-based symptoms (sweaty palms, racing heart) as a sign you're going to thrive
39:49 reminding yourself why you should succeed - I'm the best person for this. Even if everyone in the room is smarter than me, I know my material better than anyone else.
40:43 Ensure that you use procedural memory rather than your working memory to carry out a task you've already mastered. Give your mind unimportant things to do - counting backwards, sing a song, focus on the 3 take-home points of your lecture...focusing on your breathing... Anything that takes your mind off over-analyzing every aspect of what you're doing can be really important.
Do something totally different right before the stressful event.
44:50 When children learn activities they're thinking in a more automatic fashion... Protected from being able to unpack it in a way that disrupts their performance.
49:27 Ability is way more widespread than opportunity.
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