pegasus nlp blog

It’s interesting how many of us reasonably competent and well-adjusted human beings can be reduced to gibbering wrecks at the prospect of an important examination or interview.

For some of us the nervousness begins when the date of the event is announced. Once this occurs we immediately begin rehearsing for a disastrous interview or examination, for panicky feelings, for the inability to think, and so on. And as the event draws nearer our negative rehearsal becomes more realistic (since we’re done it so many times), our preparations become more frantic and our nervousness builds to an almost incapacitating level. We’re moving into panic. Continue reading →