Blog tagged as performance anxiety

The yips refers to "extreme nervousness causing a golfer to miss easy putts." More broadly applied, such sports-based performance anxiety can also lead to a pitcher making wild throws, a quarterback sailing the the ball, and the like. Pirates pitcher Steve Blass can certainly speak to the ...

No popular artist is bigger these days than the British singer-songwriter Adele, and few have been as open about their stage fright.

Rolling Stone

In a 2011 interview with Rolling Stone, Adele disclosed about her performance anxiety:

I’m scared of audiences. I get shitty scared. One show in Amster...

One of the standout performers in the final season of "American Idol," Sonika Vaid, is no stranger to stage fright. Now that she's made it into the final stages of the competition, the Martha's Vineyard native is starting to receive quite a bit of media attention. It includes a profile int...

Speech fright can be painful to watch, and this video certainly proves it. However, it seems to be painful in an entertaining sort of way except perhaps for its subject, the Hollywood director Michael Bay. How else do you explain the more than one million views the YouTube video of the incident...

The Olympic Games in Rio should have provided Australian swimmers with lots of opportunities for glory. Going into the Games, there was even talk of them winning up to ten gold medals. The actual take turned out to be just a fraction of that. Backstroke king Mitch Larkin took home one silver medal r...