But then I got the part and I was just too frightened to watch it because I thought it'd be really intimidating.
I thought it would be full of bikers and be really intimidating, so we went to Selfridges and got my tattoo there".
"It can be really intimidating if you want to start a collaboration with one of the bigwigs in your field and approach them at a conference," says Lisa DeBruine, a reader in psychology at the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom.
A ninja would be really intimidating if he dropped down behind you in a dark alley and he let you look at him for a minute, but anyone that's been killed by a ninja probably didn't see it coming.
For many, this can be really intimidating at first.
"I think it can be really intimidating trying to become a female tattoo artist in a male-dominated industry," she tells me via Skype chat.
"Subconsciously, people think they can change other people and fix them," says Hershenson. "The thought of having to date again, have the first kiss again, and have sex again for the first time" can be really intimidating, she says.
"It can be really intimidating if you don't know what you are walking into...I am hoping it made people more comfortable, and show up, 'I kinda know what is going on here, and I maybe I can do this," Jaschen said.
Instead, I joined Scheff on one of the many comfy couches that filled the community gathering space".It looks like you're it tonight," she remarked, "and I just want to acknowledge that it can be really intimidating to sign up for a self-defense class.
"I've always been really intimidated by food, and that includes food people".
