Some of Obama's techniques for tuning out distractions and keeping focused on the job can be easily adopted in everyday life
At the conference, which was organized by software company Qulatrics, Obama discussed his famous reputation for keeping cool under pressure.
"I have an even temperament and I don't get too high and I don't get too low, but that doesn't mean that throughout the presidency and throughout my professional career that there weren't times when I was constrained by, 'Man I don't want to screw this up. I don't want ot let people down. I don't want to be seen as having made made a mistake or having failed'," he said.
He says that's the attitude that he carried into working on the Iran nuclear deal, which sought to squash Iran's nuclear weapons program and the Paris Climate accords, a landmark agreement between governments worldwide to jointly address climate change. But it was more than just self-confidence that comes from experience. He also took deliberate steps to keep himself focused. This included"not reading my own press."
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