Why some networking events feel effortless (and others don't)

You know the feeling. You walk into a networking event and you're on. You remember names, people laugh at your jokes, you leave feeling like you could take on the world. Then a few weeks later, you walk into the same room and you can barely string a sentence together and are dreading speaking to anyone. You want to leave the second you arrive.

You're the same person, with the same skills, in the same kind of room. Yet the experience feels completely different.

How can we be two different people? The answer may be hormones.