
Out of all the thumbnails I’ve used for videos, this is my favourite. (Source)
I started making videos on YouTube because it was something I’d never done. As you might expect though, I sucked at it. I mumbled and stuttered and lost my train of thoughts, and just had all sorts of a nasty time trying to speak to a camera lens. But it didn’t make sense.
Why can’t I talk to a camera lens?
Looking back, it seems silly that I feared it like I did. But that’s not because the fear is silly. It’s because I thought that maybe, just maybe, it’s not something that could be learned. Maybe this was the exception. A skill that you had to be born with. You can talk to a camera, or you can’t, I thought. There is no middle-ground. There is always a middle-ground though. It just took some persistence (and a couple of simple tactics in the short-term) to find it.





