What's up with not being able to use your skills when someone is watching?
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You can tell the scientific reason or just share your experience with the subject it's really fun to read always.
I come up with pretty clever names and ideas when programming but if someone is watching best I can do is muscle memory.
If I wrote an essay while someone else is watching it would look like a middle-schooler wrote it.
Same situation when I am in an exam room with 5 other people is completely fine.
Hell I used to work at a warehouse but I attempted to tape a box the sticky part up one time because the supervisor is watching.
He just looked tired after seeing tip of the tape get dragged across a box like some cat toy.
Is it magic?
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You can tell the scientific reason or just share your experience with the subject it's really fun to read always.
I come up with pretty clever names and ideas when programming but if someone is watching best I can do is muscle memory.
If I wrote an essay while someone else is watching it would look like a middle-schooler wrote it.
Same situation when I am in an exam room with 5 other people is completely fine.
Hell I used to work at a warehouse but I attempted to tape a box the sticky part up one time because the supervisor is watching.
He just looked tired after seeing tip of the tape get dragged across a box like some cat toy.
Is it magic?
Performance anxiety.
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You can tell the scientific reason or just share your experience with the subject it's really fun to read always.
I come up with pretty clever names and ideas when programming but if someone is watching best I can do is muscle memory.
If I wrote an essay while someone else is watching it would look like a middle-schooler wrote it.
Same situation when I am in an exam room with 5 other people is completely fine.
Hell I used to work at a warehouse but I attempted to tape a box the sticky part up one time because the supervisor is watching.
He just looked tired after seeing tip of the tape get dragged across a box like some cat toy.
Is it magic?
wrote last edited by [email protected]We have two distinct brain networks whose activity is mutually exclusive: the default mode network (DMN) and the frontoparietal network (FPN, AKA central executive or task positive network). The DMN handles social relationships (among other things), while the FPN handles complex problem-solving—so if you’re engaged in what your brain thinks is a social interaction, it activates the DMN and deactivates the FPN.
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We have two distinct brain networks whose activity is mutually exclusive: the default mode network (DMN) and the frontoparietal network (FPN, AKA central executive or task positive network). The DMN handles social relationships (among other things), while the FPN handles complex problem-solving—so if you’re engaged in what your brain thinks is a social interaction, it activates the DMN and deactivates the FPN.
So what's happening in the brain of people who perform well in these circumstances?
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So what's happening in the brain of people who perform well in these circumstances?
They never had the FPN to begin with!
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So what's happening in the brain of people who perform well in these circumstances?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Two likely possibilities:
- They’re tuning out the social aspects of the situation enough that the DMN can disengage, or
- They’re so habituated to the task that they no longer need to consciously think about it (what OP calls “muscle memory”).
Or in theory, they might have learned the skill in such a way that the DMN can do it without the FPN—like if they treat it as a form of storytelling.
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Two likely possibilities:
- They’re tuning out the social aspects of the situation enough that the DMN can disengage, or
- They’re so habituated to the task that they no longer need to consciously think about it (what OP calls “muscle memory”).
Or in theory, they might have learned the skill in such a way that the DMN can do it without the FPN—like if they treat it as a form of storytelling.
That was insightful, thanks
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We have two distinct brain networks whose activity is mutually exclusive: the default mode network (DMN) and the frontoparietal network (FPN, AKA central executive or task positive network). The DMN handles social relationships (among other things), while the FPN handles complex problem-solving—so if you’re engaged in what your brain thinks is a social interaction, it activates the DMN and deactivates the FPN.
That's really interesting. I've got adhd, and I hadn't read about the role the DMN plays in adhd until I followed up on your comment. It's given me a lot think about. Thanks!
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You can tell the scientific reason or just share your experience with the subject it's really fun to read always.
I come up with pretty clever names and ideas when programming but if someone is watching best I can do is muscle memory.
If I wrote an essay while someone else is watching it would look like a middle-schooler wrote it.
Same situation when I am in an exam room with 5 other people is completely fine.
Hell I used to work at a warehouse but I attempted to tape a box the sticky part up one time because the supervisor is watching.
He just looked tired after seeing tip of the tape get dragged across a box like some cat toy.
Is it magic?
I get this from observing myself.
Like if I don't think about it at all I can touch-type, but the moment I'm aware of it I need to look at the keyboard.
