"I heard this years ago and I’ve used it ever since.
When I get nervous or feel those butterflies in my stomach, I call it my inner applause.
Instead of seeing nerves as something bad, I see them as my body cheering me on — like my soul is clapping and saying 'You’re doing something that matters.'
Even when AI tells me to do something that takes me way out of my comfort zone and I start feeling nervous, I just smile and say… 'There goes my inner applause again.'"