Talented people often choke under pressure because the distraction caused by stress consumes their working memory, a psychologist at the University of Chicago has found.
Highly accomplished people tend to heavily rely on their abundant supply of working memory and are therefore disadvantaged when challenged to solve difficult problems, such as mathematical ones, under pressure, according [...]
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Talented people choke due to memory distraction
Being a perfectionist, being anxious
AIDS researcher Anthony Fauci, MD notes that pursuing excellence in your life and work is not without emotional challenges:
“One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy… This anxiety keeps me humble.”
In his essay “A Goal of Service [...]
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