The Courage of Being Funny

When I started doing stand up, I wasn't like a funny person who was doing stand up. To me, it feels like every joke is putting yourself on the line and saying saying something that that has a risk to it. So yeah, how do you build that courage? There was a time where I think I did like 200 days straight where I didn't take us single day off. And when you do something every day like that, you just become, you adapt or die - so my brain will either become this thing that can handle that life,. all the ups and downs associated with it or it will die because it's doing it every day.