Writing about a failure can improve your performance next time while reducing stress.
There is no sense brooding over the past, we’re often told. After all, there is always tomorrow for getting things right. Well, taking a long look at a mistake may help you avoid, or at least deal with, it in the future. A new Rutgers study, published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, makes a strong case that reliving a failure, and the anxiety it prompted, through writing about the episode can improve your performance the next time and strengthen your reaction to stress, according to Brynne DiMenichi GSN’16, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers University–Newark who was one of the authors of the study.
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