I might spike the coffee with sleeping pills. I am not one to panic either. Usually, I try to be prepared.
I do however, worry that one day something unexpected will happen, and I will panic and do something really stupid, cause you never know for sure how you’ll react until you have faced a situation or something very similar.
That's a very insightful thought.
I have noticed that during an emergency everyone's IQ seems to drop about twenty points. The only remedy I'm aware of is detailed prior planning. People always default to what they know when facing what they don't.
People in my line of work have noticed this for years. We move up the ladder of responsibility in an orderly and predictable fashion. When someone moves up to a new position and encounters a problem they're not prepared to handle, they invariably default back to their prior position and start carrying out the tasks of that position even though there is a junior person already doing those tasks.
I think Jack Spirco's concentric rings of disaster is an excellent model to begin ones planning efforts.