Handle Other People Expectations
FleetingHaving a clear mind is not enough, because even if you are in cruise control and you are appropriately engaged, people will still have hidden expectations that may harm you at some point.
You need to take advantage of cognitive psychology to find out what people might want from you so that you can convert that into engagements and avoid being surprised in the future.
For the expectations that you missed, I bet you’ll be easily excused if it was clear you did all in your power to miss them. Even if not, don’t forget not to be to hard on yourself.
This is hard to do, because you have to somehow guess the values system of the other people so as to guess what their expectations might be.