Hello and thank you so much for joining us once again.

It is the Nightly Pleasures podcast.

I am your host and author of the piece you're going to hear today.

The Grey Knight!

You can call me Jack.

You don't have to go to honorifics or anything.

The Jacarino, the Jackarie.

You know, any of this is fine.

In my, I guess, eternal quest to improve as a person, to sort of lose the rancor and heal as properly as I can and just become the person that I want to be, you know, I've been doing some reading.

And I did want to share one thing with you that I found pretty interesting while doing that,

because I didn't read it in a self-help framework.

I've recently read a book by Nate Zinser, I think is how you pronounce it, Z-I-N-S-S-E-R,

and I read it for productivity purposes on how to sort of shake the imposter syndrome that I feel when I sit down to write.

Now, to be clear, that's not when I do these anymore.

And that the book goes over that in a way that I just I didn't expect.

So it really gave me something to consider and think about

because it made its thesis to me pretty clear that,

okay, in one way I've got this, in another way, when I sit down to

write a novel, or when I sit down to write a screenplay, I don't feel nearly as confident.

When I sing, my knees might as well not exist. I turn to jelly.

It doesn't matter how much I practice, I get in front of somebody or I get in front of the microphone,

I become less good at it.

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