In last week’s post I shared with you my thoughts on the OMG state – a state of mind where your inner voice continually tells you that you’ve made a mistake and its all going to go horribly wrong.
I met up with my fellow comedy challengers again last week. We’d all prepared some material – short comedy sketches to test on each other and I felt OK about it. But when we got to the meeting room – there was a microphone and a speaker. How can one inanimate object scare me so much. I panicked at the thought of using it. I quickly realised that this was my negative self (Frankie) trying to sabotage me. What a brilliant opportunity to practice and use the mic now rather than face it for the first time at the show.
Turning thoughts around into a positive outcome is a great technique to use when you start to panic over something.
copyright Carolyn Trafford
I’d also really worried about my material. Having stood in front of a mirror and read it out, it neither sounded funny nor was delivered in a funny style. I was really nervious when I stepped up to the Mic.
Yet I was greeted with laughter from my 14 strong audience. Loud laughter! Imagine what that will sound like with an audience of 300. And better still the feedback I received was that it was almost there. So my second learning point today is:
No matter what you say, do or in fact believe, when delivered to someone else it will be interpreted differently, gather feedback and if its positive believe it as readily as you would if it were negative.
Well I’m off to practice for this weeks meeting, I’ve added a few bits, changed a few bits and streamlined some of it, so we’ll see what this week throws at me.
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