Hey there Reader, welcome to the new and improved aovw.blogspot.com with a new domain name but chalk-full of all the laughs of the old name! A couple posts back I broke down the whole process of failing an exam. (It's really an awesome post you should go check it out if you haven't already. While you're at it, you might as well just read all the posts on the way down, you will truly benefit.) Anyways, today I wanted to talk about being nervous. Almost everybody has at least once entered a state of mind I like to call nervosity (Nuhr-vos-i-tee). Yeah I made up a word and what?
Ever get the feeling that feels as though three tiny people crawled in through your mouth and are playing soccer with your stomach? Nervousity.
Ever get that someone-is-sucking-all-the-saliva-out-of-my-mouth-and-replacing-it-with-sand sensation? Nervousity.
How about that the whole freak-the-fuck-out episode that happens in your brain when someone asks you a question during an interview or a presentation that you don't know the answer to and your whole entire body goes into convulsive shock, and the more you rack your brain for an answer the longer and more awkward the silence seems to become until every cell in your brain crashes and bursts into flame and you end up running all the way back home in tears, not even able to remember your own name? Nervousity.
Now, if you can relate to one or more of the above examples, you have experienced a state of nervousity. While in nervousity, you are more aware of how seemingly stupid anything that might come out of your mouth is. If you enter nervousity right before an interview, you think you're going to say something so dumb during the interview that whoever is interviewing you will not only deny you, but also very publicly humiliate you and mark you as a failure for life. Remember this when trying to escape nervousity. To err is human. Everybody on the planet has made mistakes, even yours truly. (Some very public, embarrassing mistakes too, one even involving a crowd of 2,000 people, a piano and a lot of urine, but we'll save that for another blog post...). Try to realize that everybody else who walks the planet earth is also human, or trying very hard to fit in with humans, so you have nothing really to be scared of.
And when all else fails, fuck it and say the most off the wall things you can think of. The end result might be so epic, you'll thank me later.
Ever get the feeling that feels as though three tiny people crawled in through your mouth and are playing soccer with your stomach? Nervousity.
Ever get that someone-is-sucking-all-the-saliva-out-of-my-mouth-and-replacing-it-with-sand sensation? Nervousity.
How about that the whole freak-the-fuck-out episode that happens in your brain when someone asks you a question during an interview or a presentation that you don't know the answer to and your whole entire body goes into convulsive shock, and the more you rack your brain for an answer the longer and more awkward the silence seems to become until every cell in your brain crashes and bursts into flame and you end up running all the way back home in tears, not even able to remember your own name? Nervousity.
Now, if you can relate to one or more of the above examples, you have experienced a state of nervousity. While in nervousity, you are more aware of how seemingly stupid anything that might come out of your mouth is. If you enter nervousity right before an interview, you think you're going to say something so dumb during the interview that whoever is interviewing you will not only deny you, but also very publicly humiliate you and mark you as a failure for life. Remember this when trying to escape nervousity. To err is human. Everybody on the planet has made mistakes, even yours truly. (Some very public, embarrassing mistakes too, one even involving a crowd of 2,000 people, a piano and a lot of urine, but we'll save that for another blog post...). Try to realize that everybody else who walks the planet earth is also human, or trying very hard to fit in with humans, so you have nothing really to be scared of.
And when all else fails, fuck it and say the most off the wall things you can think of. The end result might be so epic, you'll thank me later.
"Ever get the feeling that feels as though three tiny people crawled in through your mouth and are playing soccer with your stomach? Nervousity." Lmaooo!! Holy shiit, i always get nervousity!! You seem to always have the RIGHT thing to say The Charmeleon! :D
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