Master The Power of Pressure To Change Your Life
What I learned about how under pressure can be a fuel for high performance
Nobody performs better under pressure. Regardless of the task, pressure ruthlessly diminishes your judgment, decision-making, attention, dexterity, and performance.
But is it possible you can transform pressure into a force for good and use it to change your life?
When you’re running out of time to meet a target and there’s so much to lose, pressure can trigger your mind to think faster and come up with solutions to a problem.
Each one of us responds to pressure situations uniquely. But how you choose to deal with it will depend on the value you place on the issue at hand. Thomas Carlyle once wrote, “No pressure, no diamonds.”
I recently came across Dane Jensen’s The Power of Pressure: Why Pressure Isn’t the Problem, It’s the Solution and started reading it.
In the book, Jensen noted that pressure isn’t just a nasty by-product of life, it’s an essential input into high performance.
“A life well-lived requires pressure,” he asserted.
I was taken aback by this assertion because all my life, I have been taught to avoid pressure.
