You mean other than joining the TSA?
Get it? Hands on?
It sounds like you’re talking about performance anxiety. There are anti-anxiety pills. But the other thing I know that helps are mindfulness techniques. These are supported by meditation and yoga. However, in your mind, you become so attached to doing well that you drive yourself into an anxiety fit.
It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. That’s your mantra.
Hands on is about exploration. It’s about making mistakes. That’s how you learn. Really. You can’t learn shit without experimenting.
But that’s the difference between theorists and experimentalists. Theorists can live in the world of the mind. Experimentalists have to get their hands on. You don’t live in the right world for doing experiments. Let me guess. Did you ever get muddy while a kid? Did you ever push your hands deep in the dough?
Help me out here. Find any image from your childhood where you didn’t care what you looked like. You just got so involved in what you were doing you forgot reality. That’s the image you need to keep in your head when doing experiments. That, and remembering to let go of all your anxious thoughts. They don’t help and they don’t actually matter. Piffle. Let them go. Shake your hand dismissively as you send them on their way. Literally feel the wait of those thoughts as you push them over the edge into the garbage heap.
K?