All right. First question. Comic or tragic? My passion to stand-up comedy. I've been pursuing it for three years, and I've definitely gotten better since my first open mic. However, my biggest hurdle is my confidence. I feel very judged by other comics on the quality of my jokes, my stage presence, etc. Because of this, I feel I'm not progressing as fast as I

want because I'm so scared. Once my set is over, I feel ashamed that I was so scared on stage.

I am I afraid of them seeing the real me? How do I teach myself to love instead of hate the process

of building my set in front of comics that I believe are

judging me. All right. So here's the great news. Those comics are judging you and some of them

are really hoping that you're going to fail. Here's what you have to keep in mind. Never judge

yourself through the lens of a moment. Judge yourself through the lens of a lifetime and know this about humans.

On a long enough timeline, you can get extraordinary at anything.

Now, it doesn't mean that it's going to be equal that as you put in energy and the person

next to you puts in the same amount of energy, that you're both going to get the same result.

There is such a thing as a

natural predilection towards something. Some people pick things up faster than others. And I always tell

people, don't worry about that. Worry about how much you love the process. Because the process

is all the matters. You may never. You may never, much to my dismay, you may never become the hot comedian.

But if you love the process of getting good at it, if you're open-minded, if you actually

want to learn, if your actual self-esteem, your pride is tied up not in whether you go out

and kill as a comic, but whether you're able to move through the nights

where you're just absolutely failing, that you can in the moment remind yourself that this is

just practice, that when someone's heckling you, that you're actually looking at, hmm, are they

right about something? Or if they're giving you that kind of negative feedback live, can you play

with it? Can you do something with

that that's funny can you control your emotions can you look at the people that think that you're

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