“I’m proud of myself to say that I was able to spring to action and catch my dad…”

Just a few weekends ago, I was playing - I was at my dad's house with my younger brother who's 24. And my dad was playing a new virtual reality game on the Oculus Quest, and it was a shooting game where you shoot these video game characters, but they also shoot at you. And when you're playing a two-dimensional game on your television, whatever. But when you have bullets coming at you in a VR world, even if they're cartoon bullets that are moving at, you know, almost in slow motion. Not quite slow motion. It can spook you, when you twist your head around in this virtual world, and you see something coming to you, and you have to bob your head very quickly to avoid getting hit. My dad was doing really well in that round, and then he got hit with one of those moments where he turned his head, and there was something coming at him, so he bobbed his head quickly and began to lose his balance, and he's 72. So he started stumbling and bumbling backward toward our glass window. Um, our glass door window, and our giant flat screen TV, so I had to be - actually it's a moderately sized - I'm sorry. It's just a small stupid detail. I was like painting this picture of us having this, like, this movie screen. Our standard sized flat screen TV, and I don't know, my brother kinda just sat and watched it because that's what happens sometimes when you watch something happen in a pinch. You're like, "Okay, this is happening, doesn't look good." And I'm proud of myself to say that I was able to spring to action, and catch my dad just before he potentially smashed through our back door window. And who knows what could've happened after that. That dude is on blood thinners, so he would've bled like crazy, like it could've been like a seriously terrible thing. So that'd be my most recent responding to stressful situation. I'll pat myself on the back.

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“I walked back in the room, and she’s like “The site’s down.””

Note: Some language has been edited out of the transcript that has not been edited out of the audio.  "Has there ever been a time where you were able to stay calm in a high stress situation? What happened and how'd you respond? One of our team members had their car spin out on black ice, but they avoided an accident because they stayed calm and didn't try to overcorrect the car." Damn. I'm really glad that that had - that worked out for you, team member. Stay calm in a high stress situation. Again, at work - so I'm a software developer. And I was doing a deployment, this was maybe a month or two ago. And it was low risk, it was just purely a front-end change, wasn't supposed to change anything about the data model or anything, and I deployed. It takes us like five to eight minutes to deploy. And it was fine. It completed, and there was a small data change that I had to make. I made it. I asked my teammate to verify that it looked good, 'cause I was collaborating with her on that deployment. I walked out of the room to get coffee, and I was back in, you know, less than two minutes. And I walked back in the room, and she's like "The site's down." I was like "What?" And I just looked at her screen and it was just a white screen. I was like "F***." I was like “Oh man,” and then... So then it's basically firefighting, like “What did I do? How can I get this back up?” And thankfully, we did have sort of a rollback strategy that I utilized within five minutes, if not within three minutes. So the downtime was minimal, and there were no complaints from customers about it. But yeah, I was - I just kinda get in the zone, kinda just blinders. Like I just see the screen, and the environment just melts away. And then after that. Like, after I got the site back up, I was like just a huge sigh of relief, like my heart was pounding. I was like, “I gotta take a walk, just to calm down, clear my head.” And as it turns out, I don't think it was my fault per se, that the site went down. I deployed during the day which we try…

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“I had gone horseback riding.”

"Has there ever been a time you were able to stay calm in a high stress situation? What happened? And how did you respond? One of our team members had their car spin out on black ice, but they avoided an accident because they stayed calm and didn't try to overcorrect the car." I don't know. I am not a very good, like, stay calm under a lot of stress person. I'm trying to think of a time maybe. My examples would not be good because I don't really stay calm in high stress situations, at all. I have emotional breakdowns, and so this is not a good question for me to answer. One thing that maybe could come up is when I was in girl scouts. I was in fourth or fifth grade. I don't - I think it was in the summer in between fourth and fifth grade. And I had gone horseback riding, in my past. But I was very, very afraid of horses. I don't remember why I was afraid of horses, but I was really, really afraid. Oh, yeah, 'cause I had actually witnessed somebody get bucked off a horse. And so I was like really, really scared. And so I told my group leader, "Can I please have the best horse? Like, if you can. I'm extremely afraid of horses. I haven't been on one since I witnessed somebody get bucked off like, you know, blah blah blah blah." And she was like "Okay!" And then she never got me the best horse. In fact, I got the worst horse, and so they were like, "Oh, nothing has ever gone wrong. All horses are good horses." And guess what happened? About, let's say, a tenth of a mile into our like three or four mile ride, my horse, instead of going and following all the other horses and going in like a path into the woods, veers right and goes into like onto a weird trail, and it starts galloping. And I am not kidding, it started to gallop. And it went into like super high grass and it started jumping up, trying to buck me off. And I was holding on with all my might, and then soon, my best friend's horse followed, and her horse ran to like the top of a hill, and I was like - my horse was still…

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