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How To Overcome Performance Anxiety

By Paul Morin — 2012

One of the most important reasons for performance anxiety is that we become afraid that we will not perform well. We think there’s a chance that our performance will not live up to our expectations, to those of people we care about, and to those of people in general. This happens whether there is any physical danger involved or not. I guess we can refer to this as “mental danger,” that is, the fear that our ego will be injured or that others will not think of us as highly.

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