During times of change and high demand, the more a person uses automated patterns of thinking and behavior in order to cope. Since this includes a repetition of past negative behaviors and thinking based on prior traumas, and paying greater attention to the "loudest" of emotions (such as fear, for example), thinking errors, biases and ineffective behavioral habits are likely to become a problem for anyone.

My question is, how do you really overcome this? How do you prepare for high cognitive demand situations such that new, preferred patterns of thinking and behaving become the new normal? I still have difficulty with this, even after all that I have read and been taught - which honestly has been a lot.