Fearless people don’t exist. Practiced people do.

Calm under pressure is not an absence of fear, it is familiarity. The people who look unshakeable are standing in a situation they have been in forty times, and what you are reading as temperament is a record of repetitions you did not see. That matters because temperament would be fixed and repetitions are available to anybody willing to be bad at something for a while.

Stop waiting for the fear to clear out before you count yourself ready. Count attempts instead, and notice that the fourth one at anything feels nothing like the first.