Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your In Fact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,794. I read an article the other day about Mike Nichols. Mike Nichols is a director and he made four straight box office hits. And that included two Academy Award nominations and an Oscar for Best Director. Then he made

another movie and it completely flopped. For the next seven years, he didn't make a movie.

He was worried about how people were going to perceive him. And he eventually got over himself

and he started looking back and he said after the seven years

of not producing a movie, he said, those seven years of not making movies taught me more about

making movies than the years I spent making movies. And so it was asked of him, what did it teach

him? And he said to relax. Prepare as much as you can. Prepare, prepare, prepare,

prepare. Then show up and throw it all the way. Just show up and see what happens. Close quote.

I think Mike Nichols' advice is so good for all of us.

I think sometimes we make things a lot bigger than they need to be.

And Bertrand Russell said that whenever he feels like he is terribly important,

he reminds himself to get over yourself.

He says, you're not that important, and it doesn't matter what it is care but not that much. Prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, and then show up and ask yourself,

who cares? Going back to what we talked about with Sean White last week. And so when was there a time

in your life where you really cared? You

cared so much that it crippled you. It actually hurt you. You almost cared too much. And then when

was there a time when you didn't care as much? Yes, it was important, but the care factor wasn't

there. You had kept things in perspective and you ended up performing so much better.

See what lessons you can learn from exploring both of those memories.

And the key is preparation.

Prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, and then go out there and trust yourself and whatever you do.

Have a great day, and we'll do it again tomorrow.

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