If you saw the Miss USA pageant, or the way-over-the-top coverage after, you saw Miss California answer a question from Perez Hilton about gay marriage. Now, let’s set aside the REAL controversy (how did Perez Hilton become a “celebrity judge” at a beauty pageant?????) and look at Miss California’s answer. Specifically, how could STRESS JUDO have helped her fashion a response that would have won the pageant.
STRESS JUDO trains you to look at a stressful situation – and THAT question in front of a national audience, with the Miss USA title on the line pretty much defines “stressful situation” – first with Creative Problem Solving (Chapter 2). What is the problem presented? What alternatives can you use? In this case, Miss California would have seen that Perez Hilton didn’t really CARE about the answer – he just wanted to ask the question.
STRESS JUDO has other components – time management, self-examination questions, meditation, fitness – that don’t apply to this situation. But the Daily Practice component (Chapter 13) would have trained her to face stress and remain calm and focused. Now, don’t get me wrong. She was calm and was focused, but more on her poise, not on the question situation. She held it together and did not suffer any anxiety attack. Daily practice would allow her to see the stress and respond to the stress; in this case, a judge who wanted to get a question ou there, not necessarily to hear an answer.
So how should she have handled the situation? By realizing that Perez had achieved his goal (asking the question), so she in fact had NO stressful situation. She could have used Creative Thinking (Chapter 4) or Instant Stress Management (Chapter 9) to side-step the stressor and give one of those non-commital “I love puppies and world peace” that Miss USA contestants are so famous for giving!
Again, the point here is how could STRESS JUDO have helped Miss California. It would NOT have given her an answer. It would NOT have made Perez Hilton happy. But STRESS JUDO training would have allowed Miss California to identify the problem, the stressor, and a solution that removed stress from her.
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