New research sheds light on why people "choke" under pressure and offers insights on how to stop your brain from freezing up when the stakes are high.
Jackpot scenarios disrupt the brain's ability to "go with the flow" and perform with superfluidity.is the ultimate state of flow. Muscle movements seem to happen automatically and effortlessly when you're in the zone and experiencing" under pressure is the antithesis of superfluidity. When athletes choke, motor coordination becomes discombobulated and muscle movements lose smoothness.
"If people trying to avoid choking under pressure were to benefit from our study, we suggest they could beat it by finding the right balance between self-awareness and, and just generally keeping it loose when the stakes go up, even if there is a natural tendency to clamp down."of your frontal lobes by letting bottom-up processing seated in the"little brain" run free by getting your"big brain" out of the way.
Because the automaticity of superfluidity is driven by subcortical brain regions beneath the cerebral cortex, if top-down processing takes over and the"intellectual machinery" of your frontal lobes clamps down, it's more likely that you're going to choke. Tennis legend Arthur Ashe famously called this syndrome caused by overthinking"paralysis by analysis.
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