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"Don't Let Your Brain Get in the Way"

This post was written by Bill Grimes: "The Atlantic magazine has an interesting story in the September 2010 issue about the seemingly inexplicable undoing of the world's #1 female tennis player. Ana Ivanovic, just 22 years old, won the French Open in 2008. Today she has difficulty accurately throwing the ball up in the air to serve. Her ranking dropped to #58 this summer, and she lost in the first round at Wimbledon. The collapse may not be so inexplicable, and may have lessons for all of us.

University of Chicago psychologist Sian Beilock says Ivanovic's inability to do what had become routine for her could be "paralysis by analysis." She may be thinking too much. Her brain may be interfering with synchronized tasks she had clearly mastered..."

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Source: Visual and (Non) Verbal Communication, 14 September 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 20, 2010 (boomark / email).