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How Embracing Pressure Reveals Your Dream Job
It’s Game 7 of the NBA Finals. You’re down by one point and the clock is running out as you dribble the ball to the other half of the court.
Talk about pressure, right? What if you don’t sink the shot? What if you miss and everyone hates you? The media will spend at least two weeks talking about your failure and say that you don’t have the “clutch gene.”
Now imagine that you’re a surgeon and you’re performing open-heart surgery. You’ve been studying for this for years but you’ve only just stopped being a student.
There’s something different without the excuse of being a student at your disposal, isn’t there? Now you’re being called to succeed, but what if you don’t? Are you even a surgeon if you can’t save this person’s life?
These are some high-pressure moments and most people wouldn’t want them. Hell, some of us can’t even watch others in these moments. It’s too much. We don’t want the pressure either. We just want to know that when we open our eyes our team won the game and that the doctor saved our grandpa.
But what if I were to tell you that there are people who want the pressure? Not only do they want the pressure, they live for it, and that everything they do is for this moment.
