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EP 77: Nathan Smith, PhD, on Resilience in Extreme Environments

The Emergency Mind Podcast

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Do You Know How to Focus on Critical Decisions?

The attentional work that you're describing is one that really resonates in and out of the emergency department as well. There's loads of kind of programs like attention or focus training programs, which are probably a little bit in the context we're talking about wouldn't really hit it with the people that we're working with. I remember interviewing an expedition who had spent a lot of time in the Middle East doing journeys where he'd face some quite challenging situations. He talked about using this principle of going to the balcony.

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