Let's talk about how your brain can mistake correlation for causation and destroy your performance. The brain is a habit formation device that looks for things that work so that you can do them again. One example of this is, that sometimes when you're stressed, you do a better job. Your brain then decides that being stressed causes you to do a better job. Then, it helpfully decides that you should be stressed all the time. And you feel the fear of failure when you aren't stressed because in that

Correlation vs. causation: why it matters in spiritual practices aimed to get insight into the future. | Tyler Henry