Your weakest moment is when you’re sure you’ve already won. That’s when people stop checking.

Certainty is when attention switches off. People stop checking the clock, stop watching the other side, stop asking what could still go wrong, because the result already feels settled, and the gap between feeling settled and being settled is where almost all late collapses happen. The lead is not the danger. Believing it is.

When you are confident something is in the bag, do one check you would have done if you were behind. Count the time left, reread the question, look at what the other side can still do. Then relax afterwards.