Pressure on a pipe shows the leak. Better to find it in practice than on game night.

Stress does not create weak points, it reveals them. The flaw was already there, quietly holding, and the load simply made it visible while there was still time to do something about it. Finding out early feels like failure and functions like a favor. What you learn under moderate pressure is what keeps you standing under the real kind.

After the next difficult rehearsal, practice or draft, write down exactly where you came apart. Do not fix everything. Fix the one seam that gave way first, while the cost of knowing is still low.