Lately, I’ve been watching two Netflix documentaries — Break Point and Formula 1: Drive to Survive.

Both tell stories about pressure, but in very different ways.

In F1, the tension comes from the chaos — money, machines, politics, strategy.
It’s a storm of people and power, all tangled together.

In tennis, it’s just one person standing alone on the court.
No machines, no team to hide behind — only you, your breath, and your mind.

At one point, a coach says,
“If you put too much pressure on yourself,
you won’t be able to perform when it matters.”

That line stayed with me.
Because in the end, performance — in sports, work, or life —
is about finding your right temperature.
Not boiling. Not freezing.
Just warm enough to move, calm enough to see clearly.

Maybe that’s what being a professional really means —
to know how to tune yourself,
so that you can rise again, exactly when it counts.