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Public Embarrassment Is Fuel

Private embarrassment is poison

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Rick Lewis
Oct 17, 2023
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It was my first street performance

I was beet red with shame, and wanted to find a hole in the ground I could crawl into.

All because I was being completely ignored.

I’d just performed a clowning and circus routine that I finally found the courage to present to a public audience sitting on the tiered steps of Pioneer Square, downtown Portland.

Hundreds of o…

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