Beat performance anxiety with these quick tips

战胜表演焦虑,这些小贴士助你一臂之力

Life Kit

2026-09-24

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Whether it’s before a big race, during a job interview, or after meeting a new friend, performance anxiety can feel impossible to beat. So what if you talked to it instead? Certified mental performance coach and author of The Confidence Habit Cindra Kamphoff shares tips to tackle performance anxiety from within. Follow us on Instagram: @nprlifekitSign up for our newsletter here.Have an episode idea or feedback you want to share? Email us at lifekit@npr.orgSupport public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening and convenient playlists of popular help topics like personal finance, getting healthy, and more. Learn more at plus.npr.org. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy
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  • I ran track in high school

  • and I found that I would always do the best when the least was expected of me.

  • So to run varsity, there were only maybe seven varsity spots and you had to get a certain

  • time in a previous race and then you would be on varsity.

  • And every time I did that and I would run on the varsity race, I would choke.

  • And then every time that I ran on JV,

  • I would get a better time than I did when I was running varsity.

  • It was just performance anxiety, I guess.

  • Yeah.

  • I'm not surprised to hear that.

  • One of the things that I teach is to have a wide variety of goals, like a gold, silver, bronze goal,

  • because your gold goal is typically like the outcome goal that you really want,

  • but an outcome is something you can't control.

  • And so you decrease your anxiety, increase your confidence when you set a range of goals.

  • What are some other types of goals that you might have?

  • Well, let's say, for example, your daughter is running the mile, okay?