No pain

Interviews. To have interviews you have to have guests. And to have guests you need to send out invitations. So I have been sending invitations on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and via e-mail. It takes me roughly 6 hours to send out 50 invitations – that long because it takes a while to go through a streamer’s profile, watch them stream a bit, see which way is best to contact them, etc...

But anyway, I am an introvert, so even reaching out to people online was a bit of a pain. I really had to push myself to get out of my comfort zone, to do things which felt really uncomfortable – sending invites. I know, I know. What’s so hard about sending invitations, right? But for me it was hard. Painful. To a point where I just wanted to turn around, leave my laptop behind and just crawl into bed and sleep – just to avoid sending invites. This is what it’s like being me.

The story has a good ending, though. After sending about 150 invitations over several days, I kind of got into it. I got over it. It no longer felt uncomfortable sending invites. And the more responses I’ve gotten, the motivated I was to keep doing it.

So, thanks to these efforts, thanks to me just shouldering the pain for a while, I now get to do interviews, I get to talk to new people, I get to learn about streaming. All of which I appreciate.