Lewis Howes

Like, I can't do that, but I can't continue.

I can't continue like this.

I'm like having panic attacks.

I'm throwing up all the time.

I'm throwing up every...

it's unbearable it's unbearable so what do you do so i started thinking like what is the worst thing that these voices these like what would provoke my demons the most like what is the scariest thing that i could possibly do and then right after the storytelling exercise we had this uh the next sort of block in our school was we got to do our own projects and we

we had a month to prepare for whatever we wanted to.

Yeah.

Scenes or whatever.

But most of, basically everyone kind of took it as an opportunity to take a little bit of a break.

And they did like, people got together, like four people doing two scenes from a big play and just like really worked on those.

And people weren't like challenging themselves that much.

I was like,

I need to figure this out and I'm gonna use this time.

And so I started thinking like, what is the worst thing that these voices, these like forces in me, what would provoke them the most?

Like, let's go to war.

You know, that's my, and then the scariest thing that I could imagine would be to do like a monologue, a monologue on stage with no scenography, nothing, just me on an empty stage.

Nothing.

And there was this one play called Howie the Rookie that I'd seen, and it's written for two actors, where the first storyteller is also a character, and the second storyteller is also a character.

And the first storyteller tells the story up at a certain point, and then the second storyteller takes over.