← SayItLikeNative

How native speakers pronounce “pre

5 examples from real videos — listen, replay, loop.

1 / 5

who had written about it a few years before, also called the pre-mortem. Now, you all know what the postmortem is.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

Every occurrence (5)

who had written about it a few years before, also called the pre-mortem. Now, you all know what the postmortem is.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

a team of experts come in and they try to figure out what went wrong, right? Well, in the pre-mortem, Danny explained, you look ahead and you try to figure out all the things that could go wrong,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

So what I want to talk to you about today are some of the things we can do in the form of a pre-mortem. Some of them are obvious, some of them are not so obvious.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

Cortisol is toxic, and it causes cloudy thinking. So part of the practice of the pre-mortem is to recognize that under stress you're not going to be at your best,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

they'll only last for a year or two. So the idea of the pre-mortem is to think ahead of time to the questions that you might be able to ask

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED