Mikael Krogerus & Roman Tschäppeler
Beyond Busy
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The Paralysis of Confidence
I'm Swiss so we don't even know where the penalty shoot out it is. The minute you question what you're doing at the moment you lose confidence. That phenomenon is called choking and it's the same that we also see in British football players. They are really good at taking penalties but the minute they walk up to that penalty spot they remember that they were to shoot. But there's something that happened in the past so they lose confidence. And there are many studies on this phenomenon choking.
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