Performance Scan
Your weekly check-in
Elite performance starts inside.
This research-backed scale tracks changes in positive and negative emotional experience, helping athletes understand how their internal state shifts across training and competition cycles.
Game rule
Complete the scan every weekend. There’s no judgement. No fixing. Just data. Think of this as a performance diagnostic, not a personality test.
Research shows that emotional states directly influence:
Decision-making speed
Attentional focus
Motor control and coordination
Recovery and injury risk
Competitive confidence under pressure
Emotions aren’t distractions—they’re information.
Studies in sport psychology and affective science demonstrate that both positive and negative affect can enhance or impair performance depending on awareness and regulation (Lane et al., 2012; Beedie et al., 2000).
Knowing your emotional profile helps you work with the system, not against it.
Why athletes play this game
⚡ Energy + Story = Emotion
From a physiological perspective, emotions are energy states in the body, paired with a narrative the brain attaches to them.
Just like:
A song instantly bringing back a past competition
A smell triggering pre-game nerves
A moment replaying itself before a big performance
The body reacts first.
The story comes second.
Research in embodied cognition and affective neuroscience supports this view: emotion is not separate from the body—it is the body in action (Damasio, 1999; Barrett, 2017).
