I couldn't bring myself to make an idiot of myself out in the street. Even though it had lasted 15 seconds and no one cares afterwards, no one will see me. I think we know now that people's biggest fear is to be judged publicly. Public speaking is often the thing that people put on their biggest fears. People are more scared of being judged in public than they are of death even. It commonly comes at the top of those kinds of surveys. So I guess the point is it's very normal to feel uncomfortable in those sorts of situations where you risk making a fool of yourself. Everyone feels like that. Absolutely everyone in the world. And what happens is that you get more
This episode features a conversation with my friend Paul Taylor, who you already know from previous episodes of LEP. Paul is back from the Edinburgh fringe, where he was performing for the whole of August in a comedy show, and a couple of days ago he came over to the flat for a cup of tea and a bit of a chat. We started talking about the Edinburgh fringe and how it went for him. It was his first time and I think he found it very challenging because the audiences were hard to please, apparently they had some tough shows where nobody laughed, and he realised that the standard of stand-up comedy in the UK is much higher than he expected, but it was a learning experience. Then we ended up talking about the similarity between learning how to do stand-up comedy and learning a language. During the conversation I quickly decided to record our thoughts so that I could make it into an episode of my podcast. We wrote down a few brief ideas and then went upstairs to start recording. You can now listen to that conversation here in full. Also, listen to the end to hear some funny out-takes from this episode.
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