Today we talked about our performance under pressure. In the reading, it said that on easier tasks people will perform better than normal but on more difficult tasks, people will perform worse and much slow than normal when being watched by others. I can definitely relate to this fact. On some types of math problems, I have no problem doing them. I can do them no problem even when people are watching me over my shoulder. But then there are certain things that are newer to me and take me more time to do. And then when someone wants to watch me do it, I usually will get a little nervous and it may take me even longer than normal.
We also discussed how people will be faster when racing others rather than racing the clock. I would definitely agree with this fact. For example, for me when it comes to swim, it is very obvious. Sometimes during practice when we have to do sets on a certain time interval. There are some days that I find it more difficult to come in on time. But when it comes to a meet and racing others, I will get best times and usually do much better than the intervals. I find that I am much more motivated when there are others racing against me. This is mainly because I want to beat them and get a better time, which is plenty of motivation for me.
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