What can chefs, rugby players, pilots and entrepreneurs learn from each other? Staying calm when things seem to be going wrong. After thirty years of international business life, Sheila Struyck now works as Chef de Cuisine. She wonders how to prevent 'choking' or 'freezing', in an essay for the Financial Times. Here is a translation. FD - 11 September 2021

M.F.K. Fisher and Julia Child were friends because they both ‘knew the acceptance of Now’. That mantra is helping me through long days filled with Zoom meetings