It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.

I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do.

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.