The second issue is how to get our other faculties to perform at their best while we are under heavy sympathetic influence. I am one of a group of people who perform better in some dimensions when I am under the gun. Some is my own inherited potential. Some I have developed with years of performing under pressure. As for putting people under the pressure cooker, I agree with George about competition.
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However there are many other creative ways to achieve this result. While teaching Uechi at U.Va. I figured that if I could get students to come to class during these times, I would lose fewer students. My solution was to fight fire with fire. It was half their score for the semester for rank.