This is million dollar question. I have been doing videos for some time, however I have never really expressed myself fully.
To express yourself to your full potential, in my opinion you must forget about all around you.. at least in a way. The biggest problem I am facing when making videos is that I do not want to be too loud and disturb peace of my neighbors.
The thing is I live in small one room flat with separate kitchen, and I do not have the thickest walls. If neighbor is listening to TV on medium or loud volume I can hear it, with not much of a problem.
So if we think a bit, if I can hear him, then he must surely hear me too. My room is relatively empty so there is nice bit of echo here amplifying everything I say. What can I do to make sure I am still that non disturbing neighbor about who no one really cares about ? I can be silent or I can limit the noise I produce.
It sounds all good, but if you have listened to your own voice, you will know that at certain level it turns down from loud and clear to rumbling. Issue is you can not always hear it yourself. Then when editing video you can hear how awful you sound, on top of that it quite well known fact that we don't really enjoy our own voice recordings and our voice for us sounds quite a bit different than it actually does.
This is one of reasons I never really get into making videos as a whole, I though it sounded awful, on top of that I was lazy to edit anything so all the boring parts was still here. Who would listen to some guy rumbling about nothing for an hour or more ? No one is his right mind. Fully thing is some of my videos were quite successful, for the scale of channel I was back then, people were even asking to make more. But it was 5 years ago. I left that channel and it seems even if some people were interested hype is long gone.
So lets return to my first question. How can you be more confident ? I think you should simply stop caring. We all make mistakes and do not become famous after one video or post. Not often at least. There are charismatic people or people who do amazing (not necessary smart) things and get famous just like that.
But what can we, regular gray mortals do ? We must keep doing what we want to do. I see no reason to fake your reaction or pretend to be something you are not. Do you know why ? If you do something you don't like or pretend to be someone you are not at end it will always backfire.
I had several ideas what I want my channel to be like, it certainly was not posting blogs at start, but to be honest I enjoy writing this post. I talk about myself with no need to imagine something I am not or something what never happened. How can anyone know that I speak truth or am what I am ?
They cant.
Simple as that.
What is bottom line of this ? Stop caring about your mistakes, take everything slow and do it the way you feel most comfortable in. Be loud for once, if neighbor complains say sorry, at least you now know how much your neighbor hears you. Maybe he is almost deaf and that is reason his TV is turned all the way up, do you know him ? Maybe it will turn out he likes what you do ? It is a possibility.
Do what you like the best and do not let little things ruin your day.
Cheers ;)
Read next
From @docucat