Why Capable Professionals Stop Functioning Under Pressure
Why capable professionals freeze, go silent, or lose focus under pressure — and why it’s a capacity issue, not motivation or burnout.
Why capable professionals freeze, go silent, or lose focus under pressure — and why it’s a capacity issue, not motivation or burnout.
How modern How modern neuroscience explains why access to skills fluctuates under stress—and why capacity, not traits, drives real-world performance. explains why access to skills fluctuates under stress—and why capacity, not traits, drives real-world performance.
What that told me is that stress doesn’t wait for burnout to start breaking thinking.
It starts by impairing judgment, decision-making, and flexibility — long before anyone thinks of themselves as burned out.
That’s why the consequences show up early, even while people are still functioning.
A guided protocol that takes you from frozen, flooded, or stuck back to functional.
The goal of the 30-Minute Reset: to restore access to your thinking and executive function when stress has knocked it offline — not to fix your life or solve everything.