Reframe your emotions
For them, "stress" is a negative.
"It's just really cool to get the opportunity to have all that pressure on you," Joey told me before the season-ending race at Homestead in 2016, where he had a shot to win that year's championship. "A lot of people don't get the opportunity to have pressure. To work hard and get to a certain level and then have pressure ... it's a privilege to feel pressure ." (My italics.)
Logano reframed "pressure" into a positive.
But you can control, at least to some degree, how you respond to and manage those emotions.
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