BRING OUT YOUR BEST
Summarized from a much longer article titled “DR. TIM ELMORE: COMPETITION. IS IT GOOD FOR YOU?” posted at We Are One Softball. Please click here for the full story.
A group jumping from a plane for the first time where shown to experience less anxiety after successive jumps by measuring chemicals in their saliva. Another group of SEASONED ballroom dancers was tested to have the SAME angst before EVERY performance as the first time jumpers.
“Dancing is much safer than skydiving, don’t you think? Why the heightened adrenaline?
“The answer is competition.
“The dancers, while very experienced, were competing with each other. That’s it.
“It was discovered that whenever people are watched, evaluated, or know they are performing alongside someone else, they tend to perform better. Our senses are raised. We are alert. We are more aware of who we are and what we’re doing. In short, we tend to be at our best.”
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| From top, left-to-right, Wesley Wolverines freshman #25 P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA), freshman #1 MI Bianca Newsom (Edison, NJ), junior #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE). |
