The performance pressure is eating me up and I love it.

Ayush Agarwal
Thought Worthy
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2 min readJan 12, 2016

That day my parents came to watch me play for the first time. It also was the first time I missed a beat while playing that song.

I had to make our product a bit ‘more’ better to show to a friend. Don’t know how much I’d work before taking to the mentors and VCs.

Now that people have started following me on Medium, I feel like having to write better. Edit more and make every sentence count.

Performance pressure is real and it eats me up. The first thought that comes across after creating something is of all the people who are going to read it or use it or work on it.

Sometimes I love it.

It makes me practice more. It asks me to overdo. Over-perform. I tend to create stuff that matters.

Sometimes I hate it.

I don’t want to care about others. It builds unnecessary stresses and extra bit of hurry.

Eventually it makes me stronger. Makes me go out and know stuff before I talk about it.

These days my hardships are harder. I have to prove myself. Have to be better than myself everyday.

…and I believe it all will add up someday. Everything is like a small piece of puzzle. I am just geting ready for a bigger battle.

Start bleeding today. You play the way you practice.

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Ayush Agarwal
Thought Worthy

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