Stressed out

So, Mr. Mullins posted a link to this article: 

It's incredibly long, so you don't have to read the whole thing just to understand my blog (I would recommend it though, it's very interesting). I'm just going to focus on a couple of paragraphs:

"Some scholars have suggested that we are all Warriors or Worriers. Those with fast-acting dopamine clearers are the Warriors, ready for threatening environments where maximum performance is required. Those with slow-acting dopamine clearers are the Worriers, capable of more complex planning. Over the course of evolution, both Warriors and Worriers were necessary for human tribes to survive.

In truth, because we all get one COMT gene from our father and one from our mother, about half of all people inherit one of each gene variation, so they have a mix of the enzymes and are somewhere in between the Warriors and the Worriers. About a quarter of people carry Warrior-only genes, and a quarter of people Worrier-only."

Essentially, this is saying that Warriors, or those with a gene that allows them to clear dopamine from their brain faster, can make decisions faster and stress less during tests. Worriers, with a different gene that clears the dopamine less slowly, are better at planning out things but tend to worry and stress much more about tests. 

Obviously, I do not know much about the science behind this, but speaking from personal experience, I would consider myself somewhere in between a Warrior and a Worrier. I don't really mind tests and almost never stress out about them (which would be a Warrior), but I also feel like my brain is working extremely quickly while I take them because I always finish very early, which indicates that I am a Worrier. There is definitely a spectrum between these two, and speaking from personal experience, I would say that magnets (most of my friends, that is) tend to be on the Worrier side (Some more so than others). That could also be due to the fact that most of them actually care about school, which for some reason is atypical. 

Anyway, my point is that seeing this research cleared up a lot of my observations. I've always wondered why some people stress the way they do, because I don't really worry that much, but people who are just as prepared as I am for a test may seem to panic and start pulling out their hair because they think they missed a negative sign... 

If anyone actually reads this blog, which I seriously doubt will happen unless your name is Mr. Mullins, comment: are you a Warrior or a Worrier?