Practice and Experience Are Not Very Useful in Preventing Choking

Do you actually try and sing a song in your head before giving an important presentation? I do so. Do you do this at all seon in your own life? We've talked about how highly trained musicians and athletes can choke. One conclusion you might draw from this is that practice and experience are not very useful in preventing choking. That would be a mistake. Practice is really important for developing fluent, automated processes in what you're doing. And it's because they were performing so automatically, it was actually almost outside of conscious awareness. When you don't pay attention to something, you don't rememberit. If you can do that when you're playing a game, for example, then