An extremely powerful way to tame the stage fright monster is to laugh at it!
To laugh at the silly monster inside us that’s so darn serious: “OH MY GOD!!! I made a mistake! How could this happen to PERFECT me?! I am SO perfect! I am so awesome and fabulous! How could I possibly make a mistake?!!!
To laugh at the silly monster who doesn’t realize that everybody else is a lot more worried about how they are doing than about how I am doing. Heck, my own mother, children, best friend, lover, and people in the audience aren’t even thinking about me right now! Ha!
Another way to laugh the silly monster out of existence is to try to fail on purpose: Let’s really mess things up. Let’s have so much stage fright that it’ll be legendary! The great great grandmother of all stage frights! The most incredible stage fright in the entire history of the universe! People will be talking about my stage fright for generations to come!
Takeaway: Let’s lighten up and laugh at ourselves and enjoy the therapeutic value of not taking ourselves so seriously!
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