Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,784.

I saw an interview of Steven Spielberg and a legendary director who directed many iconic movies, one of them being Jaws from 1975.

Now, for those of you who do not know of the movie Jaws, never heard of

it, it's this horror slash thriller movie of a man-eating shark who terrorized the shore,

the shores. And Steven Spielberg ends up describing or saying that the shark, who they named Bruce, the mechanical shark, broke right when they put it into the salty water.

Now, with its main character on the injured list, Stephen Spielberg had to get creative.

He had envisioned that Bruce, the shark, was going to be in

many scenes, that it was going to show him slittering through and chomping at people and just

showing images of him swimming and getting close to people's feet as they're trying to escape him.

But because they didn't have a mechanical shark, they just had to shoot the movie from the

shark's point of view chasing people. Now, in the interview, Spielberg says something really

interesting. The person goes and they ask him if it actually made the movie better.

And he said that I think it torched up the suspension of the movie. Rather than seeing the

shark in every scene, I played a lot of the fear from the people in the water and seen their

legs kicking from the point of view of the shark. That's what turned the movie into more of an exercise

in suspense than just a horror film. And then the interviewer says, so when you wanted it,

you probably would have had a different movie. And he says, I probably would have had a different

movie that wouldn't have been as successful. Spielberg also goes on to say,

I think the film would have made half the money had the sharked work.

Close quote. What a great lesson. A lot of times you might go into a certain situation

and things don't turn out the way you want. Maybe the field is

bad. Maybe the weather is bad. Maybe something you had anticipated and expected working doesn't work.

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