Meet Drew Landry

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Drew Landry. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Drew, first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.
Honestly, I don’t think you do, I think you just learn how to deal with it and ignore it. At least for me. Any time I get any tiny win or accolade or opportunity, it makes my imposter syndrome grow, my brain says “Do they realize they’re giving this to someone who has no fuckin idea what he’s doing?” Ideally, I try to not listen to that voice or just hope I’m wrong.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I do stand up. I’ve been doing it since I was 13 and it’s the best. When you kill it’s the greatest feeling in the world, and when you bomb it’s the worst feeling in the world. It’s two extremes. I either have a good set and I feel like a rockstar or I bomb my ass off and it’s the most embarrassing night of my life. That’s what’s exciting about it, in my opinion. At its best, it’s super empowering, and at its worst, it’s absolutely fucking humiliating. I love that.

I recently put out a little mini stand-up special called “All My Friends Are Dead.” It’s all about my two childhood best friends who passed away, it’s a tribute to them. I filmed it on a budget and released it independently on YouTube with no label or production company, and it ended up getting a bunch of write-ups and winning an award. And I know I’m probably coming as insufferable but I’m super proud of it and wanna shamelessly plug it as much as I can ’cause it’s my favorite thing I’ve ever made.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
I think it’s mainly the ability to be proactive and try stuff without overthinking it. Any time I try to overanalyze something before I do it, it becomes impossible.

Do you think it’s better to go all in on our strengths or to try to be more well-rounded by investing effort on improving areas you aren’t as strong in?
My philosophy is I’d rather be amazing at one thing than be okay at ten things. I think a lot of people in LA try to do too much. They do stand-up, they do sketch, they do improv, they act, they have three podcasts, they write scripts, they blog, they’re trying to be an influencer, they record music. It’s this thing where you frantically try to plant as many seeds as possible to hopefully be successful and it looks exhausting. I feel like you’re never gonna master anything if you’re trying to master a dozen things at the same time. Just focus on the thing you love the most or the thing you’re best at and double down on that.

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