Nowadays, the pressure on us kids is growing exponentially. From the most mundane topics in school, to advance pentatonic scales, we are expected to perform. Its quite amazing how us kids can handle such stress, and some even manage to thrive under it.
So how do us human handle so much stress now? My reasoning is simple, natural selection. Back in the cavemen days, if you don't perform well while trying to bring down a mammoth, you starve. As time progressed only the strong under pressure survive. At least that's my thought process.
Some how the stress of the world on me made me perform well only under pressure. The perfect example is at a math competition recently, where I had absolutely no pressure. I made simple mistakes, missed clever insight that I could have made, and just plain misread the problem. And all this is probably due to the fact that I had no stress what-so-ever. It's not that I didn't try, it's just that I didn't pressure myself.
Under this observation, I should put myself into the fight-or-flight response every time I want to achieve something...
The world stuffed me into a pressure cooker.
-runiteking1
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So how do us human handle so much stress now? My reasoning is simple, natural selection. Back in the cavemen days, if you don't perform well while trying to bring down a mammoth, you starve. As time progressed only the strong under pressure survive. At least that's my thought process.
Some how the stress of the world on me made me perform well only under pressure. The perfect example is at a math competition recently, where I had absolutely no pressure. I made simple mistakes, missed clever insight that I could have made, and just plain misread the problem. And all this is probably due to the fact that I had no stress what-so-ever. It's not that I didn't try, it's just that I didn't pressure myself.
Under this observation, I should put myself into the fight-or-flight response every time I want to achieve something...
The world stuffed me into a pressure cooker.
-runiteking1
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