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How performance anxiety destroys cooking confidence

I can make restaurant-quality food but only when I am alone and the moment someone watches me cook my hands shake and I mess up everything

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The presence of witnesses transforms creative expression from flow state into self-conscious performance.

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“Where Are You with Food as creativity — cooking as art?”

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