There's this term in science called ustress. It turns out that if you don't put enough pressure on yourself, or things are not challenging enough, then we wind up in boredom. And if we push ourselves too hard, we end up in distress. There's like a sweet spot of stress where if you want to play your best in that game, there needs to be some amount of pressure on you. i'm hearing from ruby is that she learned the hard way that she was putting away too much pressure on herself.