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performing under pressure. If she’s
drawn to activities that require performance,
though, you can help her
thrive.
When I was a kid, I loved figure skating.
I could spend hours on the rink,
tracing figure eights, spinning happily,
or flying through the air. But on the
day of my competitions, I was a wreck.
I hadn’t slept the night before and
would often fall during moves that I
had sailed through in practice. At first I
believed what people told me—that I
had the jitters, just like everybody else.
But then I saw a TV interview with the
Olympic gold medalist Katarina Witt.
She said that pre-competition nerves
gave her the adrenaline she needed to
win the gold.
I knew then that Katarina and I were
utterly different creatures, but it took
me decades to figure out why. Her
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