Working Memory Can Actually Induce Choking

Study shows that choking can slow down people's ability to dribble a ball around cones. When we're just learning a skill, we do have to pay attention to it a lot. But once we know it really well and it's on auto pilot, if you pay too much attention to aspects of it,. then you actually disrupt so this is the great paradox of working memory. It plays an essential role as were learning a new skill. Being deliberate and conscious when you are a beginner is an excellent way to master something. As you get better and better, it becomes more and more automatic. Instead of working memory, you now need to rely on something called procedure memory. All the things you