This is an animal subject, with amazing and compounding results when coupled with sentience.
This is part of the great dichotomy of humanity, the vanity of humanity coupled with carnal emotion.
Frank Herbert in this Dune series referred to fear as the mind killer. Yeah, never liked that rhythm or feel of the words, but the point is true, logic goes out the window with fear. Logic being a higher thought or non-animal process.
Calm and cool under pressure really refers to having no fear, keeping common sense and logic in play when the typical human is freaking out and succumbing to animal behavior. Panic. Fight or flight. These are all indications of the mammalian carnal existence.
Would but that we could all be Spock.
Or something in between. Buddha smiling peacefully is one thing but I sure do love visceral rock and roll.
The deadly combination of carnal and cerebral. Who needs drugs?
Buddha was listening to John Lennon on his iPod.
That explains it.