Lowering the perceived stakes of a task facilitates a playful mindset which enhances performance and helps avoid procrastination.

“most of us when it comes to our work if we can find a way to just dial down the seriousness approach it with a bit more sincerity as alen WS would say d you know lower the stakes lower the bar think of it not as this is a big thing I'm trying to do but instead think of it as I'm just having fun here”

Alex Honnold believes that contemplating one's own mortality helps individuals put their fears and anxieties into perspective.

“I do think that that being mindful of your own mortality helps put other things in perspectives and helps put a lot of a lot of anxieties and fears and other kinds of things into perspective. You're kind of like a lot of the little stuff just doesn't freaking matter when you think that either way yo”