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NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
So when I reflected, this was when I first started doing therapy in my early 20s, on kind of the way in which I handled living with this disease, I became very critical of
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
how serious I was taking it or even the opposite end of that spectrum, which is, am I taking it too seriously?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
You know, at that time there was, there's a lot of,
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
a lot of noise made about it because I was sort of the only public person talking about type one in this way as an advocate.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
And I became really discouraged by some of the feedback.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
This was the first time I recall feeling, and I'm going to use a big word here and I don't mean for it to sound so intense, but feeling betrayed by people in the sense that
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
I wanted to just be a normal kid like everybody else and not be dealing with this thing.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
I wasn't trying to make a meal out of it.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
I'm just sharing my truth about this.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
And it was made to feel like, oh, he's making too big a deal.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
And it's not that serious.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
And so I became very critical of everything I was doing in that sense, whether I was doing enough to manage it or not enough.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
And then later on in my life, I was met with a situation where I really kind of fell flat on my face.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
Not literally, but that would have been better, actually, than what happened.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
But I had a TV performance where this guitar solo moment that I was supposed to play as a feature on a Kelsey Ballerini track just didn't happen.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
I went blank.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
I hit a bad note, and then I couldn't recover.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
And I built up this...
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
this skyscraper of, you know, this, this idea that music and being a musician was my whole identity.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
NICK JONAS: The REAL Story Behind a Lifetime of Fame, His Inner Critic, and How Fatherhood Changed Everything
And it was, it was unimaginable how, how important that was to me for that skyscraper to stay standing and, and, and not have any cracks in it or anything.