Under Pressure

“self control: is it that difficult?”

This November is a pretty hectic month for me,
from doing lab for the research thesis and side project,
creating a video for competition,
preparing for intern presentation,
and blogging.

Feel under pressure? definitely Yes.

pressure here means feeling pursued by deadline, fast-beating heart, worry, adrenaline increasing, and staying up til 2 A.M. for 2 weeks.

But that’s what “a uni student” has to deal with.

As I was moving from one place to another,
I notice that everyone has a various response to a pressure.

One will stay calm, the other will be freaked out,
one will never think too much about it, the other will be overthink
and maybe most of them will procrastinate.

Here in “under pressure”, some of us may tend to lose self-control,
which is really important in doing something under pressure.
It’s pretty difficult to hold temper when we’re stressed out.
The result is we rebuke everybody for doing nothing,
or pulling ourselves from crowd.
We could even think the worst case if we couldn’t fulfill the deadline.

Again, while it is pretty difficult to hold temper,
doesn’t mean you can not.
I have some tips to hold it.
They may not 100% work for you,
as we are a different kind of person, but it will be wrong not to try.

1. Identify what kind of situation or person increase your temper
   you should know first, what kind of situation you can’t stand with,
   what kind of person annoyed you, what kind of person induced you to lose self-control when you’re under pressure.
2. Keep in mind: they are not the source of problem
   this may be difficult to do, even though they might contribute in adding pressure, we tend to forget that they are not our main goal; we forget that we have energy to be given to something more important than rebuking people.
3. Tell them that you are in a hard situation
   this may be worth to try, as they could understand you and your problem,
   so you could support each other;
   maybe spending time together to relieve stress,
   or planning to go somewhere after the deadline,
   or give a little compliment to raise the spirit,
   and who knows they might offering help.
4. It is (really really) okay to ask for help
   some of us may feel not okay when asking for help,
   we may feel that we should help them someday,
   so we thought that as long as we can do it, we’ll do it alone.
   well, the fact is not everyone would think for a reward,
   but you should know whom you’re going to ask for help.
   embrace yourself that you are a human,
   which is not a God nor a despicable thing,
   so you deserve a help.
5. Motivate yourself
   you need to keep telling yourself that you are in a hard situation,
   but you don’t have to worry, as surely everything will pass.
   do something that motivates you could also help,
   you may find that watching movies will help you stay motivated.

Below are movies recomm to keep yourself motivated

– Inside Bill’s Brain (2019)
– Overcomer (2019)
– The Founder (2016)
– The Intern (2015)
– The Imitation Game (2014)
– 5 cm (2012)
– Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
– The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
– Remember the Titans (2000)
– Air Bud (1997)

 

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