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In a noisy environment, we catch fragments of,

of the sentence and then our brain automatically reconstructs it and fills in the gaps.

So our expectations shape what we hear due to our memory, past experiences, what's happened in our lives.

So the umpire is alert for a challenge or an abuse or something along those lines.

The player is alert

to be not listened to by the umpire because they feel like... Past experiences.

Past experience.

So that expectation shapes everything.

Then you've got a high stress environment.

So under acute stress, the part of our brain that makes decisions, the prefrontal cortex, basically it's turned down or doesn't work very well.

So that means we go into fight or flight mode.

And when we're in fight or flight mode, we don't make good decisions.

We haven't got good attention to detail.

All right.

During that period.

And then after something happens, after we had that big blow up, you know, you know, there's a whole lot of different information.

We basically reconstruct that memory.

All right.

And then we double down.

And so the reflection, the conversation with teammates, the umpires talk to each other, then the media.