Brian Johnson offers motivational advice on how to perform at your best: prioritize repeated practice ('reps') to build competence and thereby confidence; face fears by repeatedly doing the things that make you uncomfortable; and form identity through repeated actions ('Identity is repeated beingness'). He emphasizes persistence, normalizing early incompetence, and getting comfortable with discomfort.
So my number one thing is reps. You need reps. How in the world are you supposed to be good on stage when you've done it once or twice or three times? The only way to have confidence is to have competence. And how are you going to have competence if you've never done it? Always, always, always, always, always, always, always do the thing you're afraid of. And the death of fear is certain. Get comfortable being up there. And the only way you're going to do that is by being comfortable being uncomfortable. Don't tell yourself a story that something's wrong with you because you currently suck at something that you haven't done enough times to have a level of mastery where you meet you're the best in the world at what you do. You know you're never going to starve, so you got to know who you are, dude. Identity is repeated beingness.
