Let's talk about BRAIN FREEZE. And I mean the total, complete, 300-baud mush when some question --for whatever reason-- kills your ability to think. I've had

Let's talk about BRAIN FREEZE. And I mean the total, complete, 300-baud mush when some question --for whatever reason-- kills your ability to think. I've had it happen twice, and man it ain't fun. The second was like an out-of-body experience. I forgot the question, I forgot my train of thought, I knew I wasn't responding, I knew that I knew that the interview knew that I was just sitting there, saying "ummmmmmmmmm" for about 147 seconds now. Yikes! Yet in day to day, these would have been easy questions. And TBH I didn't even want to job at that point. It's critical that you as an interviewee learn to monitor and CONTROL your physiological response to stress. And I've learned that as an interviewer, I try to pay close attention to physical stress responses from the candidate -- flushed cheeks, signs of sweat, sudden lock-up -- when I see these signs, I back off and let them come back to normal first.