Why You Choke Under Pressure

“When we are performing our normal, practiced tasks everyday, we oftenare – counterintuitively — not paying attention to all the littledetails of what we are doing; our prefrontal cortex is running largelyon autopilot. But in times of intense stress, like a playoff game, majorpresentation, or a job interview, your prefrontal cortex can go intooverdrive. When the pressure is on, we often start focusing on thestep-by-step details of our performance to try and ensure an optimalou