Handling Life's Pressures: Work Pressure, Peer Pressure, and Pressure from Yourself

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**Dave Chang** (1:06)
Well, the World Cup was awesome. It's over. But I'm still thinking about penalty kicks.
Especially if I was even good enough to even take that. Would I handle the pressure well? Would you handle the pressure well? I've talked to numerous friends that all think that they could do it, or they could make a putt, a three-foot putt at Augusta National with the championship on the line. Like, I doubt it. Because pressure is something that is hard to recreate. You can never be prepared for it. So we'll talk about this and more while eating some very, very cool and refreshing summer foods. I'm gonna make a melon salad with some lobster. And you will see that at the end of the episode.
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Welcome to The Dave Chang Show. I'm here with Chris Ying and producer David. And when it's hot outside, I really, it's either I want cold noodles, super hot noodle broth like ramen, or just like things that are cold. And that's what I'm gonna make for you today.
It's a dish that I sort of made, the one that I made for Cafe Balloud was way more complicated than the one I'm gonna make today. But I think it's actually appropriate because I've handled pressure well, I've handled pressure poorly, and I feel like the one thing I've learned over the years is to prepare for the moments of pressure. And this dish, which you can see at the end of the episode, is great because I like any dish you can quote unquote sandbag, which is preparing it in advance. So it's easy to actually execute when you actually have to serve it. But while you prepare in advance, you're really not losing any quality. In fact, it could get more delicious. So being prepared, studying, thinking about it in ways so when it does happen, you actually stack the deck in your favor and your percentages increase is one way to mitigate pressure. And I've seen that in the kitchens. And again, not a surprise. I think I've seen that with penalty kicks. But anyway, what we're here to talk about today is pressure. I'm going to talk about pressure with my friends here. I'm going to serve this very nice melon salad. And then we're going to find out what some of our new friends are going to eat the salad, think about pressure too. The pressure in the World Cup is probably the highest pressure in sports because you're representing a country.
Right? In many of these countries, this is their only thing.

**Chris Ying** (4:16)
And it's once every four years. And when you think about the ages and like your prime, being a Messier or Ronaldo is so rare. You get one or two bites of the apple.

**Dave Chang** (4:27)
But even Messier doesn't, has not historically been a good penalty kicker, taker. But anyway, like I was surprised because I kept on thinking about the match between Paraguay and Germany. If you're not into soccer, I apologize and we're going to move on pretty quickly. But it's just sort of recreating moments of pressure. And I was sort of totally flabbergasted that like five of the senior German members of the team chose not to take the penalty kick, and they gave it to some second-string defensive back who had never done it, and he missed it. And that's a surprise because we learned they weren't organized, they didn't have a plan. And there was a great article in The Athletic recently by some European professor about the odds and what you need to do to be a great penalty-kicking team. And I was sort of shocked that Germany of all teams chose not to do it. But I also now can sort of understand why you wouldn't want to do it.