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"Quiet Eye": A Technique to Enhance Performance When You're Nervous

The Bulletproof Musician

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Is Quiet Eye in High Stress Situations Still Effective?

A technique called quiet ee has been studied in spo s as well as in law enforcement, military and medical settings. It refers to the amount of time one spends fixting on a specific location before initiating movement. Expert performances seem to go hand in hand with longer quiet eye periods. And it also appears that performing optimaly requires that our brain get itself organized before initiating movement,. Because quiet eye periods get longer as skills become more complex.

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