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How to stay calm under pressure - Noa Kageyama and Pen-Pen Chen
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Your favorite athlete closes in for a victorious win.
The crowd holds its breath,
and, at the crucial moment, she misses the shot.
That competitor just experienced the phenomenon known as "choking,"
where despite months, even years, of practice,
a person fails right when it matters most.
Choking is common in sports,
where performance often occurs under intense pressure
and depends on key moments.
And yet, performance anxiety also haunts public speakers,
contestants in spelling bees,
and even world-famous musicians.
Most people intuitively blame it on their nerves,
but why does being nervous undermine expert performance?
There are two sets of theories,
which both say that primarily, choking under pressure boils down to focus.
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