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Self-Pressure & performance pressure

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Performance Success: Performing Your Best Under Pressure

Performance Success teaches a set of skills so that a musician can be ready to go out and sing or play at his or her highest level, working with energies that might otherwise be wasted in unproductive ways. This is a book of skills and exercises, prepared by a master teacher.

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FindCenterThere is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

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Entrepreneurs Have Feelings, Too

Founders too often ignore the mental toll the pressure to succeed takes—and that hurts companies. Here are three ways to foster a culture of emotional wellness.

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Playing with Confidence—How to Overcome Sports Performance Anxiety

So, what’s the big deal about “game day” anyway? Why do we let ourselves get so worked up about it? Instinctively, we understand what it is that makes us so nervous, but it can be hard to put it into words.

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Throw Like a Girl: How to Dream Big and Believe in Yourself

The evidence is overwhelming: sports help girls grow into strong women. Both scientific studies and anecdotal evidence confirm that athletic girls not only grow up to be healthier; they learn teamwork, gain inner confidence, and grow into society’s leaders.

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FindCenterOnce we start basing our self-esteem purely on our performance, our greatest joys in life can start to seem like so much hard work, our pleasure morphing into pain.

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The Best Four Years of Your Life?

Dropping out helped me see the lies we were sold about the college experience.

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In God’s Hands: Simone Biles on the Great Advice that Changed Her Life

Simone Biles talks about how she beat the odds to win Olympic gold.

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Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities

In her engaging study, Passing for Perfect,erin Khuê Ninh considers the factors that drove college imposters such as Azia Kim—who pretended to be a Stanford freshman—and Jennifer Pan—who hired a hitman to kill her parents before they found out she had never received her high school diploma—to extreme...

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Under Pressure: Why Athletes Choke

What makes an elite sports star suddenly unable to do the very thing they have been practising for years? And is there anything they can do about it?

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