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"   Got a big presentation coming up? A new brain-scan study has discovered a nice little mental trick to make sure you don&amp;#039;t choke and blow your moment. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology discovered that, when the stakes are high (asking for a raise, doing a big presentation that can impact your job), we tend to obsess over what might happen if we screw up. As a result, we essentially create a self-fulfilling prophesy, and fail.  It gets worse: The more you worry about messing up, the worse you choke.  For the study, scientists gave participants up to $100 if they could move a virtual object on a computer screen into a square within a time limit. Once people started to win more money and felt the pressure to earn more, their performance started to suffer.  Since thinking &amp;quot;don&amp;#039;t think about choking, don&amp;#039;t think about choking&amp;quot; won&amp;#039;t help in a pressure situation, researchers say you should just zero in on what you need to do and don&amp;#039;t think about what will happen afterwards. Doing this increases the likelihood that you&amp;#039;ll do well\u2014and then you can celebrate! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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