Fear and performance

While lead climbing, if you feel scared, you tend to clip the quickdraws high when you are below. But as you do that, you get even more tired. You are working extra moves to be the rope to your mouth, then clipping.

Over the course of say 14 clips, you might do 7 extra moves just to teach the top. It adds up.

There’s a metaphor here with fear and performance.

The more afraid we are the more likely we are to fail.