The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.

In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining.

If you don't fall off the wagon regularly, you're not playing a big enough game.

There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs