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EP 67: Dan Dworkis, MD PhD, on Mental Models for Performance Under Pressure

The Emergency Mind Podcast

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The Yurk Dadsen Curve Is a Study of Human Performance Under Stress

The yurk dadsen curve is an exploration of how humans perform under pressure. And what it looks at is the relationship of how performance varies as we increase the stress and pressure in a particular situation. The farther along the x axis, the more stress and pressure youare under. On the y axis, higher up values on the yaxis, you'r performing a task better; lower values, youre performing it worse. If we're too far stressed, we are right shifted. Anything we do to improve our ability to perform under pressure is left shifting us back into centre.

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