In this video, the host explains the theory of prospective hindsight through the use of pre-mortem. He starts of by giving a personal anecdote.
The brain releases cortisol under stress. Cortisol is toxic, and it causes cloudy thinking. In pre-mortem, you look ahead and you try to figure out all the things that could go wrong, and you try to figure out what you can do to prevent those things from happening, or to minimize the damage. Part of the practice of the pre-mortem is to recognize that under stress you're not going to be at your best, and you should put systems in place.
The idea of pre-mortem is to think ahead of time to the questions you might be able to ask that will push the conversation forward. You don't want to have to manufacture all of this on the spot (while considering things like the quality of life).
When the brain releases cortisol under stress, one of the things that happens is a whole bunch of systems shut down. There's an evolutionary reason for this. Face-to-face with a predator, you don't need your digestive system, or your libido, or your immune system, because if your body is expending metabolism on those things and you don't react quickly, you might become the lion's lunch, and then none of those things matter. Unfortunately, one of the things that goes out the window during those times of stress is rational, logical thinking. So we need to train ourselves to think ahead to these kinds of situations.
It's important to recognize that all of us are flawed. We all are going to fail now and then. The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be, to put systems in place that will help minimize the damage, or to prevent the bad things from happening in the first place.
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