The Power of Hot States: How Performance Anxiety Affects Skating

Rachel is researching ways to reignite the compassion that our cool rational selves should be feeling for our hot emotional selves./nThe first step to minding such empathy gaps is making sure that our cold state selves remember that we have such gaps in the first place./nWhen you're not in an emotional state at a given time, it's nearly impossible to understand its effect on your behavi./nWe usually plan our lives when we're in a calm rational state. But we often forget that more intense emotionally charged situations could be lurking right around the corner./nWhatever state we're in, just it feels like the truth. Like it just feels like an accurate assessment of reality and I'll never not feel this right.