In example, if you were really good at throwing darts and you would hit bullseye every time, and then you were told that you would lose all your money if you missed the next throw, for some reason you start feeling like you can’t even hit the entire target and probably will miss a lot. Wouldn’t it make sense that anxiety increased your performance instead?
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In many cases it’s because you split your focus. Your brain is using half its attention thinking about how something could go wrong(the consequences of failing) that you have only half to actually do the thing you need to do.
Example can be skiing down a mountain path. If you keep saying to yourself “dont hit a tree, dont hit a tree”, you will be focused on the trees and trying to avoid them, which will make you pay less attention to the path itself.
If you just focus on following the path and ignore the trees, you wont hit a tree anyway if you just follow the path.
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