We pump up everything to be more than it is. We all seem to do it to EVERYTHING. Talking to that girl seems like a life or death situation, that job interview is the highest pressure you’ve ever dealt with, the class presentation we be soul-crushing if we somehow flop. We create scenarios that terrify us. Why?
It’s never that difficult. NEVER.
We make it eternally more difficult by making it seem bigger and harder than it is.
Relax. Breathe. When you’re relaxed, you’re able to think and react faster and more intelligently. You will produce a better first impression and a much better-finished product if you stop caring so much about how well something goes.
A funny dichotomy is that the more you don’t care about how something turns out, the better you usually end up performing.