How to avoid catching prickly emotions from other people | Jessica Woods

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Difficult emotions can get under your skin if you're not careful. Sport and performance consultant Jessica Woods calls this the "jumping cholla effect," inspired by a sneaky kind of cactus that detaches and burrows its spines into unsuspecting passersby. In this empowering talk, she shares four mood-regulating strategies to help you gain self-awareness of your feelings, avoid catching other people's emotions and perform at your peak -- whatever the prickly situation may be.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	It's Ted Health, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:13.1	Our emotions are contagious, which means the smallest changes in the mood of a room
0:18.2	can affect the way we perform.
0:20.5	And negative people can turn our own moods sour.
0:24.3	But there's a way around this.
0:25.7	The Business and Sports Coach, Jessica Woods, explains in her talk from Ted at PMI in 2020,
0:31.4	how to regulate our own emotions so we can keep our heads and wits about us when it matters
0:36.6	most.
0:37.6	Hey listener, a quick favor.
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0:53.3	So I'm a sports and performance psychologist, which means I get to work with a lot of people
1:03.5	like elite athletes, military professionals and top government agencies whose career
1:08.6	and safety depend on peak performance.
1:11.3	And I'll never forget this one story, a soldier told me about his time serving in Iraq.
1:16.4	It was around the early 2000s when the United States had military operations in both
1:21.2	Iraq and Afghanistan.
1:23.7	And during this time, many locals were encouraged to come forward and share information about
1:27.5	potential threats.
1:29.3	So one day, this Iraqi man approaches the gate of a US outpost to share intelligence
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