This is the Jocco Underground Podcast. Number 70 sitting here with Echo Charlie.

Echo Charles.

E.C.

All the above.

And the Jocco one. So on the last underground, we talked about choking.

Not that you just were choking, but the performance choking.

And I mentioned something called the individual zones of optional optimal functioning,

which is that level of attentiveness and pressure that actually makes you perform better.

I talked about surfing and how surfing without a leash.

I could feel that I'm more focused. I can feel it.

It's a more enjoyable rush, more enjoyable feeling, a more focused feeling.

Because if you mess up your board's gone, it's probably going to get smashed by the rocks.

You have to swim far. At a minimum, you've got to swim, which is a gut check.

So everything is more focused. So that level of stress is good.

So there's a closely related psychological theory or psychological law related to this.

It's called the Yerks Dodson law. Maybe it's the Yerksies, but the Yerks Dodson law.

I've been doing it after a couple of psychologists, Robert Yerks and John Dodson.

It says something very similar. Basically, that you have an area of optimal stress that

results in optimal performance. So with too little stress, your performance will be subpar

due to lack of attention, due to lack of interest, due to lack of focus.

This is when a parent's like, oh yeah, my kid's really smart. He's getting an F in school

or whatever. And it's because they're bored. That's what this is.

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