by samurai69 » Mon May 14, 2012 2:04 pm
Your performance data
'The Grid' is a scientifically-designed game which tests how well you focus and how you deal with pressure. On this page you can find out how you performed in each round, how much you improved with practice, and how consistent your performances were.
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Your best time and round
Your best performance came in round four.
This was the final round of ‘The Grid’. Putting in your best performance in this round suggests that you are someone who can raise your game for the closing stages of a contest. A valuable skill for any competitor.
Consistency
You scored HIGH for consistency.
This means that you got very similar times across all the rounds of the ‘The Grid’. This suggests you can sustain the same level of performance across different competitive situations. However, it could indicate that you have difficulty improving your performance. Learning from your mistakes is an important part of performance under pressure.
Consistency is a hallmark of people who perform well when it really counts. People who perform consistently in practice have a much better chance of carrying that performance level into pressurised situations.
Improvement
You scored MEDIUM for improvement.
This indicates that your performance level across the four rounds of ‘The Grid’ increased at roughly the same rate as most others, given the same amount of practice.
Reflecting on past experiences in order to learn how to do better next time is an effective way of improving performance in high-stakes situations.
Efficiency
You scored HIGH for efficiency.
This was calculated by comparing the number of correct clicks on your four rounds of ‘The Grid’ to the number of mis-clicks or wrong clicks.
A high score indicates that you are someone who knows how to conserve your effort, staying calm, and focused on your goals. It may be that you are someone who does not waste energy on unproductive activity.
Of course, ‘The Grid’ was only part of ‘Can you compete under pressure?’ On the following pages you can explore your results from all the other parts of the test.
Next: What's your key emotion? >
What's your key emotion?
Being aware of your own feelings, and remaining in control of them, is a key part of getting the best out of yourself in intense situations. Some feelings – such as high anxiety - can stifle performance while others – such as excitement – can help you rise to a challenge.
‘Can you compete under pressure?’ asked you to predict how you might feel during a good performance by asking you about past performances. Your actual feelings before each round of ‘The Grid’ were measured by asking the same questions.
The graph shows the emotions you felt during your best round of ‘The Grid’ and compares it to your prediction. What are the key differences and similarities between the two?
Your optimum mood was Happiness
Your best performance on ‘The Grid’ came when you were feeling HAPPY.
Happiness can be a signal that all feels right in your world. Performances flow with ease and we’re less likely to dwell on problems. Concentrating on something positive from your life can help to generate happy feelings. Remembering happy and content moments can make you perform better. Next time you’re under pressure to perform, you might find that using these banks of memories is a way to get the best out of yourself.
That matches what you predicted – you thought your best performances came when you felt happy. So it looks like you're someone who understands your own emotional state and how to use it to help you perform. When you are in competitive situations, you’ll go through a range of emotions. You need to understand them and use them, if you’re going to be at your best.
A swing in mood can help you win?
Being aware of the feeling that brings out the best in you, and being able to generate those feelings at the right moment is a powerful technique. But experiencing high levels of any particular emotion during competition could be, to some degree, due to your usual character and outlook. So recognising the most significant change in your emotions from when you performed well to when you performed badly, is very important.
Your most significant emotion
When you put in your best performance on ‘The Grid’, the biggest change in your emotional profile was the decrease in your level of fatigue. Perhaps remembering this feeling could be the key to performing at your best in future situations.
Knowing how to deal with your emotions is important for athletes like Dai Green
But performance under pressure is not just about good performances. Those who succeed in intense situations know how to deal with difficult emotions when they arise. In the next section you can find more about how you can best deal with negative emotions.
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