Don't Take It Too Seriously

By Paul Gordon

When you need the outcome too badly, you strangle the delivery. The grip shows — in the jaw, in the over-articulation, in the laugh that arrives a half-second early.

Holding the outcome loosely isn't indifference. It's the only state in which you're actually free to mean what you say.

The productive use of looking stupid

Being willing to look a little foolish removes the thing you were protecting. That's what "fearless" really means here — not nerve, not the absence of fear, but nothing left to defend. Once there's nothing to protect, the unfamiliar has nothing to take from you, and the realness rushes in.

Take it further

Notice the grip — the tight jaw, the over-articulation — the next time you badly want a video to land. Loosening it is the move.

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