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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nGot a big presentation coming up? A new brain-scan study has discovered a nice little mental trick to make sure you don't choke and blow your moment.Researchers at the California Institute of Technology discovered that, when the stakes are high (asking for a raise, doing a big presentation that can impact your job), we tend to obsess over what might happen if we screw up. As a result, we essentially create a self-fulfilling prophesy, and fail. It gets worse: The more you worry about messing up, the worse you choke. For the study, scientists gave participants up to $100 if they could move a virtual object on a computer screen into a square within a time limit. Once people started to win more money and felt the pressure to earn more, their performance started to suffer.  Since thinking \"don't think about choking, don't think about choking\" won't help in a pressure situation, researchers say you should just zero in on what you need to do and don't think about what will happen afterwards. Doing this increases the likelihood that you'll do well\u2014and then you can celebrate!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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