Picture this. Cristiano Ronaldo wakes up the morning of the Champions League final. He’s got no routine, no warm-up planned. Instead, he frantically watches highlight reels from matches he played three years ago. He stays up until 3am the night before, desperately trying to remember how to take a penalty. On match day, he tells […]
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Here’s something peculiar that every exam invigilator has witnessed but nobody talks about: the student who freezes completely, stares at the ceiling for thirty seconds, then suddenly starts writing furiously and produces a near-perfect paper. MIT researchers found that students who experience these momentary “blank outs” before exams often perform 23% better than those who […]



