Conan O’Brien Is Terrified of the Oscars. (He’s Hosting Anyway.)
Jason Segel made his directorial debut with the show, “Dispatches from Elsewhere.” Leading up to the start of filming, he was overwhelmed with anxiety and a sense of imposter syndrome, or as he described it, “the feeling that you were invited by mistake.” To get rid of his anxiety about directing for the first time, he told everyone he was having... See more
Vulnerability at its heart is the willingness to show up and be seen when you can’t control perception.[…]The one thing that we all have in common is… the paradox of vulnerability: that when I meet you, the very first thing I look for in you is vulnerability, and the very last thing I want to show you is my vulnerability.
Maria Popova • Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work
Through my work, I present all my dreams, my fears, my ego, my insecurity, and it takes a level of being OK with being “seen” like that to really create work that speaks to the human condition. I laugh thinking back on an example I can give — I have a dress from one of my first collections that has my nightmares printed on it from when I was a... See more