Comment Re:Emotional Detachment (Score 1) 207
Agreed. To protect the ego the subconscious will, if it deems it important enough, create a "failsafe" so that should you not succeed, your ego is not damaged. This is often displayed in exam situations as a panic attack or mental block.
This is simply because your ego knows you can succeed if you hadn't of had the panic attack. To combat this the best course of action is to stop caring, I've found it easy to simply distract yourself the morning of the exam, wake up early, and play an online game or research something unrelated that interests you to occupy your mind. When you do go into the exam, you should hopefully, instead of thinking "I sure hope I pass this", be thinking "I can't wait till this is done with until I can do something else."
This may seem a backwards tactic, but if your brain knows it has an excuse for failure, and also knows that your objective is to finish, and not pass, it'll just coast through it to give you what you want.
This is simply because your ego knows you can succeed if you hadn't of had the panic attack. To combat this the best course of action is to stop caring, I've found it easy to simply distract yourself the morning of the exam, wake up early, and play an online game or research something unrelated that interests you to occupy your mind. When you do go into the exam, you should hopefully, instead of thinking "I sure hope I pass this", be thinking "I can't wait till this is done with until I can do something else."
This may seem a backwards tactic, but if your brain knows it has an excuse for failure, and also knows that your objective is to finish, and not pass, it'll just coast through it to give you what you want.
