Speak with Confidence. Perform Like the Best. Laugh Along the Way.
I’m Pascal Hausberger, a stand-up comedian (Comedy Central Deutschland, JOYN) who has performed in 22 countries. But when I started, I was terrified of the stage—just like many people fear public speaking.
To overcome it, I didn’t just practice more—I studied the world’s greatest performers: elite athletes, legendary speakers, and psychology-backed techniques.
On this channel, you’ll learn how to think, speak, and perform at your best—with insights from sports mentality, peak performance, public speaking, and book reviews.
🎤 Want to overcome stage fright? Speak with confidence? Master performance mindset?
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Pascal Hausberger
Today's date is Dec 15th, 2025
If someone would have asked me how many subscribers I'd have at the 100 videos milestone, I would have answered,
"Probably 1000, maybe even 2000 subs".
Well, I'm on video 100 on this channel...and I have 155 subscribers.
It feels discouraging.
Growth seems terribly slow, and it feels like the channel won't ever grow. There was a 2 week stretch, when I uploaded every day but did not gain even a single new subscriber.
"Everything that's worth it, is hard".
"If it's easy, than everyone would do it".
"This is when most people give up and fail, so just keep going"
I keep telling myself these lines, just to persevere. But at times, it's hard to believe it.
I know growth tends to start happening only after a while, when the compounding kicks in, but it's hard to know whether I'm even on the right track.
I think the content is getting better, but well, if it were so good, then I should also be seeing more results.
I wanted to break down high performers' mindset and tricks for public speaking and every day life, but I thought that might confuse the algorithm ("is this a sports channel or is the content for public speakers? What is it?"). So I'm focusing more on public speaking specifically in the Shorts, and will try to include the high performers in the longform videos. Let's see whether that works.
I have 13 longform videos. The rest are Shorts. Maybe I need to focus more on longform (even though Shorts get way more views and subscribers for me).
I made this post, so that I have a timestamp of this moment. Hopefully I can look back at this in the (near) future, laugh about it and be happy that I endured.
Growth is not really in my control, but my attitude and perseverance is.
Hope this post can inspire my future self and you, dear reader, to persevere and keep going when things don't seem to be advancing.
P.S.: At the 200 videos milestone (double from now), I better have way more than 310 subs (double from now)! lol 😅
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Pascal Hausberger
I started this channel years ago as 'Happy Nerd'.
For the logo, I used a teenager photo of myself -- one of my most nerdiest pictures 🤓.
I like that photo, but several people have told me that they think the photo is weird 🤯
So I thought it's time for a new channel look.
RIP Happy Nerd! (in my heart, I'll definitely remain a happy nerd 😊)
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Pascal Hausberger
Back with videos! excited to do videos again after a long break. more videos coming soon! 🤓
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