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My childhood was informed entirely by feeling, looking, and lamenting my differences, and I was a charged, noxious bundle of extreme anxiety and self-loathing. I thought the world was a deadening, terrible hellhole from which there was no escape besides my myriad creative outlets, which included writing, drawing, theater, choir, dance, and music.
Other Try Guys: our childhood was mostly normal and we turn out okay, afterall.
Eugene:
As my drag mother Mayhem Miller told me, “If you feel like you failed, don’t worry, we’ve all been there. You’ll slay next time.”
When people ask when our bond really formed, we can easily point to that night. You get tipsy and oil up a coworker’s butt, you become best friends real fast.
We’d extend that to say the less you want to do something, the more important it is for you to try.
We want you to get some things wrong. There’s a reason we’re called The Try Guys and not The Succeed Bros.
Thank god they changed their mind from "Do Dudes."
success should never be your goal; the goal is the experience.
Ninety-nine percent of people in the world didn’t try anything new today, so congratulations, you are officially part of the 1 percent.
We don’t have all the answers. We’re not always right. We’re not perfect. But we’re trying.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. —Michael fucking Jordan
And that seems to be true in everything I’ve encountered: your perception of the worst thing that can happen is always worse than reality.
The Try Guys may seem like a well-oiled machine but the only thing well oiled is Eugene’s hair.
“Quitting something you’re bad at only makes you less of a waste of time, so don’t be ashamed.”
I didn’t achieve my dreams, and that’s okay, because the real thing has been so much better.
“For outstanding dedication to the school—Keith ‘The Candyman’ Habersberger.”
So if anything, making your bed like a CEO aids in lessening your chances of sleeping in puppy puke.
I would turn on my computer to a Pinterest page called “preeettttyyyyy” that was just pictures of engagement rings. I’d think to myself, “Why is Becky always on Pinterest on my computer?” and close the tab and get back to my normal computing. I know.
Sksksksk I CAN'T BELIEVE
IN THE EARLY 2017 VIDEO “The Try Guys Take a Lie Detector Test,” Zach asks me point-blank, “Do you know how much we care about you?” I reply with a tense “No.” The machine says I’m telling the truth, and Keith remarks, “We’ve gotta be better about that.”
Already stressed from my own work and life responsibilities, I reminded myself that I’ll go to jail if I murder my own family—then who would feed my dogs?
It’s time to ask yourself the question, “What are you going to try?”
Remember: since failure is the goal, it’s basically impossible to mess this up.
