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How to Embrace Stress and Improve Your Performance
Research has found that work-related stress affects our ability to perform particular activities. There are four activities that many of us partake in on a regular basis that can be affected by high-stress levels. These include:
Divided Attention Tasks
When we have to complete multiple tasks, we often raise our anxiety levels. Even small tasks like taking meeting notes and trying to listen can often make us feel under pressure. If we are already stressed, we tend to perform even worst.
Working Memory
Working memory is our ability to listen and quickly store a piece of information for later. When stressed, we often have more than one thing on our minds. Therefore, there is no surprise that our ability to keep things in our heads reduces significantly.
Decision Making
We are making decisions all throughout the day. However, when stressed, our decision-making becomes worse. That is because we tend to not be able to think clearly and see a solution to simple problems.
Retrieval of Information From Memory
We have all been in a situation where we needed a piece of information from our memory and…
