3 Fear Factors
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
—NELSON MANDELA
In a skills competition, who do you think would experience the most stress: a professional golfer (PGA star Rickie Fowler), a club pro, or a total amateur who plays with his buddies on the weekends?
While I was a consultant with the Red Bull High Performance program, I sought to answer this question. Along with Dr. Leslie Sherlin, a neuroscientist, I devised a three-stage pressure test and measured each golfer’s brain’s neuroelectrical and heat rate activity during each stage of the test. We observed their biological data, and we asked questions to better understand ...
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