When the Pressure's On

FOREWORD

by ROBERT BROOKS BROWN,LIEUTENANT GENERAL, U.S. ARMY

DESERT STORM HAD JUST been won in a resounding victory, and fresh from the ticker tape parade in New York City was the man who led the United States to victory, General Norman Schwarzkopf. In 1992, he visited his alma mater, the United States Military Academy at West Point. One of his key stops was a new and innovative center that was working on improving human performance. In a scene I will never forget, General Schwarzkopf sat in an egg-shaped chair hooked up to biofeedback equipment. He was asked to think about a situation that made him mad—the biofeedback readings were nearly off the computer screen. Then he was asked to think about a situation that would relax him and the readings ...