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You’re just underprepared.
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- If I have anxiety about something that's coming up, that has become my telltale sign that I'm under prepared, that I didn't do the work that I know I should have done, and that's when you get nervous.
- For example, if you want to get someone to stop being afraid of spiders, the fastest way to do that is get them into a room with spiders and let them sit there, have a [ __ ] panic attack, pass out, wake up again, pass out, wake up again until eventually they just realize that they don't die and they're still there and there are spiders and they keep living.
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Abschnitt 1 You are not nervous.
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0:00You are not nervous. You're under prepared. If I have anxiety about something that's coming up, that has become my telltale sign that I'm under prepared, that I didn't do the work that I know I should have done, and that's when you get nervous. When you can get up on stage and you can do or whatever whatever your your your version of the performance is, and have absolutely zero anxiety, it's because you absolutely habituated to the stressor. For example, if you want to get someone to stop being afraid of spiders, the fastest way to do that is get them into a room with spiders and let them sit there, have a [ __ ] panic attack, pass out, wake up again, pass out, wake up again until eventually they just realize that they don't die and they're still there and there are spiders and they keep living. And then the phobia is gone. They habituate.