A false start doesn’t get you there first. It gets you sent home.

Moving before the signal is not aggression, it is a miscalculation about where the advantage lies. The fraction of a second you gain is worth nothing next to being removed from the race, and the cost is asymmetric in a way that anxiety cannot see. Eagerness reads the situation as a chance to get ahead when it is a chance to be disqualified.

Where you are tempted to jump early, work out the actual downside of being wrong. If the cost of moving too soon is much larger than the gain, wait for the signal. Impatience is easier to resist once you have priced it.