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Hi {NAME}, How do you feel when you walk into the office for an interview? If you're anything like me when I was interviewing, it probably feels a little bit like this: I'm usually a little bit nervous on the drive over, and I can talk myself into staying calm, but as soon as the receptionist tells you to have a seat on the couch, it all goes out the window. My palms get super sweaty no matter how many times I wipe them on my pants. My stomach starts rolling. All I'm thinking is god, I hope I don't look like the nervous wreck that I am. When I first started out, my nerves had complete control over me. I would start answering questions, only to forget what the original question was halfway through my answer. I blanked out on answers that I had written down in preparation for the interview. It was terrible. Then, one day, I had an epiphany. I solved the puzzle of nervousness. From that point on, I never got sweaty palms again and I never forgot answers. I would walk out of interviews thinking that went exactly as planned. So what did I figure out? What was the key to defeating my nerves? ..........drum roll........... Everyone gets nervous. That's it! The key to overcoming nerves is realizing that you can never not be nervous. If you're confused, bear with me. See, we all have this picture in our head of Mr. (or Mrs.) Cool, Calm and Collected: But even the Don Draper's and Jessica Alba's of the world feel the nerves. Adele is probably one of the most recognizable names in music today. She's performed at hundreds of concerts, she wrote a song for the James Bond sound track, and she's been on [carpool karaoke with James Cordon](=). Adele makes all of this look effortless, like she's not even trying. Behind the scenes it's a different story. Here's a snippet from an interview with Rolling Stone on how Adele really feels about performing: "I'm scared of audiences. I get shitty scared. One show in Amsterdam, I was so nervous I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile-vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot." Everyone gets nervous. So how do you beat the nerves? When we are faced with something stressful like an interview or a performance, our bodies go into what's called fight-or-flight mode. It's an evolutionary response that has kept us alive for thousands of years. It's when our primal instincts take over and our behaviors become seemingly automatic. In fact, research has shown that during periods of stress, the brain reverts to leveraging the most ingrained functions in order to increase reaction time and decrease energy consumption. What does that mean in plain English? When we get stressed our bodies rely on habits! In order to work around our nerves, we need to hack our brain into seeing our interview answers as "automatic" behaviors. There's only one way to make that happen: Practice. And lots of it. First, you're going to want to review each of your answers until you feel comfortable with reciting it out loud to yourself. Pro Tip: Only focus on memorizing one answer at a time rather than reciting all 6 in a row. Spend 10-15 minutes repeating one to yourself before moving on. This will boost your retention rate and increase the speed at which you commit these answers to memory. Once you feel comfortable reciting them out loud, find someone to mock interview you. It could be a roommate, a friend or a family member. The point is to try and recreate the feeling of a real interview. By doing this, you will be cementing the relationship between the cue of the interview stress with the habit of your answers. I can't stress this enough - you need to practice these questions a LOT more than you think. You truly need to be able to say them in your sleep. Once you've finished you initial memorization, I would recommending spending 15 minutes every day reciting all 6 to keep it fresh in your mind. Why is this important? When you walk into the interview, no matter how nervous you are, you'll be able to spit these answers out. This will free up "brain space" to answer any curve-ball questions, analyze how the interview is going, and build strategies on the fly rather than worrying about building your answers as you go. Since the answers you're memorizing are applicable to most interviews, you'll also free up time before the interview to focus on things like company research, role-specific questions (if applicable, like programming or finance, for example) and interviewer research. In the next email, we're going to talk about some psychology that you can use to turn the tables on your interviewer and make yourself "sticky" - in a positive way: Part III: Hack Your Interviewer's Brain With "Sticky" Psychology Best,
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