It’s day ten!
Last week, I began a thirty-day challenge to record—not post—a video every day for thirty days. The biggest battle so far? Mosquitoes!
The video I’m posting today is the third iteration of the same topic, where I discuss the situation I created to cut out at least an hour or two of scrolling every day. The first video I made on this topic was only about the rule I created for my self, and it took a few more recordings to introduce a personal story into the video. I’m trying to do more showing and less telling.
I wouldn’t say I’m completely comfortable on video yet. Maybe that will never be the case. However, I’ve definitely overcome my original “fear” of being on camera. I place fear in quotes because we all have a different definition and idea of fear.
I try to remind my self that fear is a prediction.
Humans are wired to predict. Since the dawn of man, we’ve used these predictions to protect us. Our brains take our past experiences and predict what’s going to happen in the future. It happens constantly—it’s how we navigate the world. But when it comes to things that we don’t have experience with, we fill the gaps with inaccurate predictions, many of which are to protect us from the unknown and to shield us from uncertainty.
Thousands of years ago, the unknown and the uncertain were dangerous. The modern world? Less so. Our brains will still predict our way out of a dark alley at night, but that same fear response works against us when we try anything new.
The solution? Dose your self with prediction error. Give your brain experiences to draw upon to fill in those prediction gaps. My brain now has ten days of video recordings, and it knows that nothing bad happens. If I would have committed to posting a video every day for thirty days, those experiences may not have been all positive. My commitment to recording was carefully created to create a safe and simple environment to get what I really want: to be comfortable on camera so I can post video on social media.
So far, so good!
