Good morning. Welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua episode

1,791. I recently read that Tim Ferris asked Jerry Seinfeld what would be

some of the components if you were to teach a class on how to become a great

writer or comedian or actor or whatever. Jerry Seinfeld said this, I would teach

them to learn to accept your mediocrity. You know, no one's really that great.

You know who is great? The people that just put a tremendous amount of hours

into whatever they do. It's a game of tonnage, you know? How many hours are you

going to work per week, per month, per year? You might even want to chart that

close quote. What I love about it is he said to embrace mediocrity. Know that

you're not that great. And very few people are really great at what they do, but

the people who are great are the people who put a ton of time into it. How much

are you willing, how much time are you willing to put in? How good do you want

to be? And then you have to understand what is going to cost. And one of the

things is going to cost is your time, your attention, and your effort over a

long period of time. And then you got to ask yourself, are you willing to pay

that price? Are you willing to pay the price to be great? And the very end of

this quote is what I like. You might even want to chart that. I remember recently

hearing somebody talk about quantifying preparation, quantifying the work that

they put in. And that's what Jerry Seinfeld means by charting it. Could you

imagine that every time you poured into your craft, every time you worked at

something, every book you read, every time you did something to get better, you

put a little tally markup or you put a little markup or put a little x on the

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