Short-term stress can enhance cognition by sharpening focus, activating specific brain areas, and allowing for detailed environmental and task analysis.

“the dilation of the pupils the changes in the Optics of the eyes the quickening of the heart rate the sharpening of your cognition and in fact that short-term stress brings certain elements of the brain online that allow you to focus now it Narrows your focus you're not good at seeing the so-called big picture but it Narrows your focus because it allows you to do these what I call duration path outcome types of analysis it allows you to evaluate your environment evaluate what you need to do it primes your whole system for better cognition”