they don't get nervous
4th June 2017 | for Creatives | creative fear, reaching your audience, acting, never stop LEARNING, Ben Hart, performance art, magic/illusion/mentalism |
"Most experienced performers will say that they don't get nervous. I don't get nervous anymore because everything that can be go wrong in my shows has already happened. I've knocked my table over. I've had an audience volunteer start crying. I've had props break. I've injured myself. Literally anything that can go wrong has gone wrong, and now I know what to do when it does."
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