She believes the pressure to perform while being uncertain about the quality of her work creates a sense of insecurity.

“I've had that do you do you have like the insecure oh my God yeah yeah I mean I think you're you're right like it is upsetting how much I feel like sometimes in the moment I need that like validation from like a director or something like that”

Bobby Lee experiences physical symptoms of intense anxiety when performing under pressure and uses extreme movements as a survival mechanism.

“I'm in the back going I don't know what I'm going to do I tell myself the story part I thought I crushed it I she doesn't think so but because you didn't tell the story I wrote it doesn't matter you wrote She Wrote my story yeah and like not a single word it doesn't matter but I I did I not get laug”

Khalyla Kuhn believes that Bobby Lee's performance was physically erratic and desperate because he felt intimidated by the other performers.

“you were doing some really desperate moves that I thought was for sure gonna you know get you in a Stretcher because you were doing some like joint like actual arthritic joint popping because I think that you were so intimidated by Chris Hardwick and and Tiffany hadish”

Performing while feeling uncomfortable and under pressure can lead to a better performance for certain individuals.

“I'm better when I'm more uncomfortable I'm better performer on stage when something's on my mind I'm better when they're like [ __ ] we're late now we can't get the scene we can we can do it once right I'm better there when I have a lot of time to you know kind of sit and marinate on it”

Performance anxiety is a physiological alert state that is indistinguishable from excitement and should be interpreted as readiness rather than failure.

“nervousness and excitement is the exact same thing physiologically and so you are hijacking your state of nerves and aiming it at dancing which is a state of excitement”

Anxiety is an emotional state driven by the brain's internal 'chimp' system which should be managed rather than controlled or treated with medication.

“once you use that word so i avoid that word like the plague and i keep pushing that in the new book to say you manage the chimp which is a skill so you're never going to control your eating and you never control your anxiety i don't want you to i want you to manage them”