Self-confidence and the ability to perform under pressure is something we're born with, say scientis


	Self-confidence and the ability to perform under pressure is something we're born with, say scientis

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7-1-2009 10:03 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/32450d48-e476-4409-96cf-2fd55da0416b/98B3BA86-E48A-4C13-8A52-B59A488675B3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196742/Self-confidence-ability-perform-pressure-born-say-scientists.html" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196742/Self-confidence-ability-perform-pressure-born-say-scientists.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196742/Self-confidence-ability-perform-pressure-born-say-scientists.html"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Unshakeable self belief like that demonstrated by tennis star Andy Murray may be all in the genes, according to new research.<BR aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196742/Self-confidence-ability-perform-pressure-born-say-scientists.html"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Scientists believe the rock solid self-confidence which often separates life's high achievers from those with similar talent has a genetic basis.<BR aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196742/Self-confidence-ability-perform-pressure-born-say-scientists.html"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">The new belief that this is something people are born with conflicts with previous theories that confidence is based on upbringing and other environmental factors.<BR aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196742/Self-confidence-ability-perform-pressure-born-say-scientists.html"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">So the steely resolve and never-say-die spirit which seems to separate Murray from Britain's previous tennis hope, Tim Henman, may have been inherited, say scientists.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196742/Self-confidence-ability-perform-pressure-born-say-scientists.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/6386F9B4-D579-47E5-93A8-A7B267EEC811" alt="Great Britain's Andy Murray celebrates a point agianst Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196742/Self-confidence-ability-perform-pressure-born-say-scientists.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/3F08C867-D381-451D-BF90-5251F8AD193B" alt="Tim Henman" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196742/Self-confidence-ability-perform-pressure-born-say-scientists.html"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Psychiatrists now say that the ability to perform under pressure may be something some people are born with.<BR aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196742/Self-confidence-ability-perform-pressure-born-say-scientists.html"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Professor Robert Plomin, of the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, said: 'Everyone has assumed self confidence is a matter of environment.<BR aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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