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The Embarrassing Secret of Kareem Rahma's Success | GQ

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Someone very talented (okay, it was Austin Butler) once told the host of Subway Takes, that everything a man desires lies on the other side of embarrassment. Rahma says: One hundred percent agree.

Everything is embarrassing. This is one of my guiding principles as a 40-year-old male content creator—though I prefer “entertainer,” mostly because “content creator” elicits a specific taste in people’s mouths akin to shit. To be great at anything, even interviewing people on trains and in taxis, you must be mid first. And to be mid is to be a total embarrassment to your friends, your family, and people you’d like to have sex with. There is technically nothing wrong with being mid. But being mid in public—asserting your deep, unfounded belief in your own potential for an audience of random…

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