"Physiologically, what happens to your body when you're nervous or fearful is exactly the same thing as what happens when you're excited, so all you need to do is flip a switch."
"Acting made me feel good for the first time in my life. Following in the footsteps of elder sibling John Belushi, he cut his teeth at Chicago's renowned Second City improv troupe before joining the cast of Saturday Night Live while the program was in the middle of its golden age."
"Like Ryan Reynolds, The Rock, and other enterprising Hollywood stars, Belushi has been exploring business ventures outside the entertainment industry. In his case, not tequila or mobile phones, but Oregon-grown marijuana, cultivating strains like Captain Jack's Gulzar Afghanica, also known as 'The Smell of SNL' on account of its former popularity on the set at 30 Rock."
Jim Belushi employs a psychological technique to manage anxiety by recognizing that the physiological responses to nervousness and excitement are identical, allowing him to reframe anxious feelings as enthusiasm. Beginning his career in Chicago's Second City improv and Saturday Night Live during its golden age, Belushi followed his brother John's entertainment legacy before transitioning into business ventures. Beyond acting in recent films, Belushi has become an entrepreneur in Oregon's cannabis industry, cultivating marijuana strains. His reality TV show Growing Belushi on Discovery Channel documents his daily operations, mental health advocacy, and support for criminal justice reform and medicinal cannabis use.
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