You palms sweat. Your pulse races. Your throat gets dry. You're standing in front of a room full of people who can make or break your career, and you're about to choke. For most people this sounds ...

Choking, whiffing it, the yips. For every spectacular performance in sports history, there’s an example of a highly-skilled athlete who folds under pressure. And it’s not just sports: we also might ...

We’ve all been there. It’s the big moment. The one we’ve been preparing for, visualizing, obsessing about for days, weeks, or longer. It’s that big interview, presentation, first date, or (in our ...

Perhaps one of the greatest upsets in golf history happened in the 1966 U.S. Open when legend Arnold Palmer who was leading by seven strokes choked in the final nine holes, handing the advantage and ...

In her book Choke, author Sian Beilock examines the science behind why we choke under pressure. Here, Beilock explains a few of those reasons, and offers a few solutions. Photo by William Warby. So, ...

Based on a presentation to the 57th Southwestern Petroleum Short Course, Lubbock, Tex., Apr. 26-29, 2010. As shown with a nodal analysis, the use of wellhead chokes on electrical submersible-pumped ...