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How To Combat Stage-Fright
Everyone gets stage-fright.
Performance Anxiety happens to everyone regardless of their field.
Athletes get nervous before tournaments, Actors and Actresses have to take deep breaths right before going on stage, and every public speaker will feel their heart racing as they walk up to that microphone.
There are only very few, select people that feel no nervousness at all, and that only in very specific situations:
- When there is nothing riding on the event.
- When they become totally comfortable with failure.
The first type of situation only happens when it is a very low-end event.
A professional athlete might feel totally relaxed when they compete in a local tournament in their home village with friends after having performed in multiple world championships.
The relative stakes are so low that it feels like it is not an issue whatsoever. Subjectively speaking there is nothing riding on that event.
For the second type that is usually seen in people that have been in the business for a very long time.
Jack Nicholson is a great example of an actor who has long stopped caring about the results of a particular event.
