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What's up with not being able to use your skills when someone is watching? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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You can tell the scientific reason or just share your experience with the subject it's really fun to read always.

I come up with pretty clever names and ideas when programming but if someone is watching best I can do is muscle memory.

If I wrote an essay while someone else is watching it would look like a middle-schooler wrote it.

Same situation when I am in an exam room with 5 other people is completely fine.

Hell I used to work at a warehouse but I attempted to tape a box the sticky part up one time because the supervisor is watching.

He just looked tired after seeing tip of the tape get dragged across a box like some cat toy.

Is it magic?

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So what's happening in the brain of people who perform well in these circumstances? 🤔

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Two likely possibilities:

    • They’re tuning out the social aspects of the situation enough that the DMN can disengage, or
    • They’re so habituated to the task that they no longer need to consciously think about it (what OP calls “muscle memory”).

    Or in theory, they might have learned the skill in such a way that the DMN can do it without the FPN—like if they treat it as a form of storytelling.

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