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When natural talent meets performance anxiety

Everyone tells me I'm naturally funny but when I get on stage I freeze up and can't remember why anyone would want to hear what I have to say.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between who you are in private and who you become under scrutiny reveals a fundamental uncertainty about your own worth.

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