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Stage Fright in the Bedroom and the Boardroom
Overcoming performance anxiety
2 min readApr 17, 2023
If you’ve ever wondered how ‘stage fright’ can impact your success, you’re not alone!
Performance anxiety can affect any of us — sometimes in the most unlikely situations.
Psychology tells us the following:
- Whether anxiety helps or hinders performance is related to how we interpret it.
- Anxiety isn’t all or nothing; it affects us at different levels.
- We each have our personal zone of optimal arousal: “the range of physiological arousal within which an individual can perform at the peak of physical, mental, and skillful ability” (American Psychological Association, n.d.).
Therefore, balancing enough anxiety to energize performance versus too much that crushes it is challenging.
The following article takes a deep dive into performance anxiety, sheds light on its effects, and offers helpful strategies to manage it.
