Joshua Lisec

What if I do this?

What if I say this?

What if it doesn't go?

What if, what if, what if, what if?

And we just sort of spiral into that doom.

And then the, well, what if I go out there and I forget?

And then you're in the moment and then the lights are on and you can't see the audience and the lights are so bright.

knowing what the what a stage experience is like the lights are so bright you literally can't see anything and it's like you know that hundreds to hundreds of thousands of people are all looking at you and you can't see any of them that can be terrifying so here's what i did to prepare for it

I decided to train my physiology to prepare.

This is the best advice I can give for managing one's ego.

Because when you physiologically prepare or otherwise train yourself, you are not going to...

be overwhelmed.

You're going to be made even keeler and cooler.

So what I did is I decided I was going to memorize my TED Talk word for word.

It ended up being about 17, 18 minutes on the longer side, certainly.

But I decided I was going to memorize it word for word.

Every little thing that sounded organic, even the uhs and the ums, I was intentionally inserting into my speech.

Like it's in the script.

It's in the transcript of the speech that I wrote.

It's all in there, even though if you watch it, it looks like it's organic delivery.