Re: All in the mind...

You want to practice your strategy to passing the lab when you engage
in practice lab sessions. It is just as important (if not more so)
than practicing the technologies.

What you are describing here is a common pitfall of many CCIE exam
candidates. What is especially painful is the fact that many get
themselves "out of sorts" over a non-core, independent lab task that
is only worth two points!

As you configure the equipment in a practice lab, mock lab, or the
real thing, you should never, ever allow your confidence to be shaken.

When the Continental Airlines pilot flew into the geese on takeoff in
New York, he didn't say "Well, I sure screwed this up early!" and nose
the aircraft down. He calmly kept flying the airplane and still passed
his exam! Be sure to keep that professional pilot mentality as you
navigate your lab exam.

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On Apr 28, 2009, at 4:35 PM, hopalong wrote:

> Hi
>
> This isn't a technical question...more of a mindset problem!
>
> When I start doing a lab and something in the first few crucial
> questions
> backfires, I start to panic, get frustrated and then then get angry
> with
> myself. This of course snowballs the longer the problem goes on, in
> to more
> frustration, more anger and a completely cr_at_p state of mind which
> makes the
> troubleshooting the initial problem so much harder and well a Catch-22
> situation which is really hard to recover from.
>
> In other exam situations I have always headed for a nice easy
> question first
> to get points under my belt and get a good feeling for the harder
> stuff. But
> that can't be done here.
>
> I don't suffer from lack of confidence or experience of labs :(( -
> does
> anyone have any good coping strategies for not getting wound up in
> the first
> hour or so when things go wrong? Or should I just get so fast that I
> can
> spend the first hour in the loo.....
>
>
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