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At the beginning, when you start that process, I think it's 100% certain that it will feel
completely half-baked. You will always be looking over your shoulder waiting for somebody
to call you out and say, you're a fraud, you're an idiot. Like, this is not going to work.
getting used to that sensation is a good thing. I've been acting professionally for 20 years
and I still start things and basically wait for somebody to go, wow! You really don't
know what you're doing. You really suck.
You have to anticipate and embrace the inevitable sensation of fear, like, you will feel fear
for sure. And you will feel risk. None of those like daydreams where you imagine yourself
of a movie of your own success, like, just happen without that zone and period of risk
and terror. Like, terror. Existential sort of horror and certainty that you are going
to fail. I don't think it ever goes away. The only thing I think happens is that you
get used to the sensation. You can get to that point where you say, oh yeah, this is
that phase where, you know, I'm sweating out three t-shirts a day because I think we're
about to go off the cliff like every six hours. And that's okay. You're like, you know, I'll
buy more cheap t-shirts and just, you know, wait it out.
And sometimes you're not wrong, sometimes you do crash and fail. But that's okay too.
I think a lot of people just balk at that sensation and I think you've got to push through
it.