ReadOasis Step 2 The professor looks at you and says: "What do you think?" Your heart jumps. Your face gets hot. Your mind goes white. Everyone waits. You say nothing. At Stanford University, this is called a "cold call." A teacher picks a student with no warning and asks a question. Stanford business students once listed their biggest problems at school. Cold calls were at the top. So a teacher named Matt Abrahams built a workshop to help them. You don't need to be at Stanford to feel this fear...