It probably won’t surprise you if I tell you that thinking about your past successes and failures can influence your performance in the here and now.It probably won’t surprise you if I tell you that thinking about your past successes and failures can influence your performance in the here and now.
There’s nothing like a winning season to give a player confidence going into that last game, and nothing like a string of awkward dates to make you nervous about how the next one is going to turn out. But thanks to new research, it’s become clear that the relationship between our past and present isn’t as obvious as you might think.
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It probably won’t surprise you if I tell you that thinking about your past successes and failures can influence your performance in the here and now.<\/p>\n
There’s nothing like a winning season to give a player confidence going into that last game, and nothing like a string of awkward dates to make you nervous about how the next one is going to turn out. But thanks to new research, it’s become clear that the relationship between our past and present isn’t as obvious as you might think.