Comment by wafflemaker

Sorry for being slightly off topic (though true to the topic in explicit: personality tuning before an interview).

I don't have much experience with interviews and never got a job you had to interview for (hopefully will at some point). So don't take it as a gospel.

4 out of 5 interviews I've ever had went fantastic. I stressed a lot before the interview (kind of anxious personality) and had a long (20min) meditation before. Very often, for some time after meditating, I get much less anxious, much more confident and humble.

That 1 of 5 interviews that was a trainwreck - well, I didn't meditate before it. I also didn't do a mock interview with ChatGPT right before it, and believe that lack of warmup did me in. Literally, the first thing I was to say that day was an answer to an interviewers question about myself. I got stuck, realized it's going really bad, got even more stressed and didn't answer a single question in a composed manner.