People all around us have things to teach us if only we could be aware of them. We don't always have to be reinventing the wheel. The people we know and work with must be used as resources, or we are shortchanging ourselves. So we must have role models in life. We must learn from the people who have made the journey before us.
Stress is the enemy.
It robs us of our focus and inhibits our performance. Pressure is only a negative if we allow it to be. Back when we were children, dreaming our big dreams, we all envisioned ourselves performing in the adult world and accomplishing great things. We never thought about pressure. We never thought about the things we weren't going to be able to do.