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Simply since you’re in one of the acclaimed fashionable punk bands round, doesn’t imply you’re all the time positive of your self. On this episode of Going There with Dr. Mike, PUP drummer Zack Mykula opens up about his struggles with stage fright and self-regard, revealing how he’s studying to just accept the challenges of performing with out doubting his talents.
Mykula discusses how at the same time as his band has gained success, his stage fright hasn’t gone away. He describes it as a relentless means of “publicity,” the place he battles his instincts to “escape the entire thing.” That nervousness extends even off stage, as when he obtained a praise from Fred Armisen following PUP’s Late Night time with Seth Meyers efficiency and reacted with “narcissistic self-hatred.” “I used to be like, ‘Oh, properly the factor fell down. And it wasn’t superb. I didn’t really feel that good about it,’” Mykula recollects saying, noting that he later messaged Armisen to apologize for his response and was reassured he did in actual fact deserve the praise.
It’s all a part of the “rigged” system of self-doubt, the place you may’t even imagine optimistic value determinations from others. “It’s like, I’m going right into a scenario the place I’m positively going to expertise ache and struggling, and I’m not acknowledging that… Like being a weightlifter and saying, ‘You’re by no means gonna be sore.’ After which once you’re sore, being like, ‘Oh my God, I should have achieved that utterly improper.’”
Take heed to PUP’s Zack Mykula speak about how he’s discovered to work throughout the “rigged system” of self-loathing and stage fright on Going There with Dr. Mike above, and watch a clip from the episode under (or through YouTube). You possibly can see how Mykula is overcoming his anxieties every single day by catching PUP on tour this fall with Jeff Rosenstock and particular visitor Ekko Astral by getting tickets right here.
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