How to use it
Write the session's hardest attempt, and where you'll do it, before you warm up. Once the music, adrenaline and audience kick in, you may go lower, never higher. People underestimate how much a "hot" state drives their choices.
How sure we are
S Evidence: strong. Large trials or many studies, pointing the same way.
Sources
Loewenstein 2005 (review of hot-cold empathy gaps).
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