How I majored in unafraid I remember that I majored in unafraid when I had to learn how to perform on the stage. Now I enjoy delivering speeches and reading poetry in front of the big auditorium, but earlier the situation was completely different. When I was younger, it was quite complicated for me. Once I had a strong desire to perform at school poetry competition with my favorite ego-futurist poem “Three princesses” written by Igor Severyanin. I decided that I had to overcome this fear. I was almost trembling when I just had to read it in front of my classmates to practise. Then I had to perform it within the school level at the Festival of Art at the huge assembly hall of my school. To my surprise, I won and went to the district region in Moscow and to perform in front of the professional jury. This experience was also successful, and finally I was invited to participate in Moscow poetry competition that took place in Shchukin School – one of the most prestigious colleges of drama in Moscow. There I felt much more confident and relaxed: after a number of trainings, I wasn’t nervous anymore to perform at the public. I learnt from this experience that I should approach difficulties step by step, even the most challenging ones.