Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua episode

1,803. Many times we don't trust the level of preparation that we put forth when

we get into performance. The doubt creeps in, the uncertainty creeps in. And I want

to share with you a story that I recently learned about a director named Mike

Nichols. Mike Nichols won four straight box office hits included two Academy

Award nominations and Oscar for Best Director and then one time after all of

these awards he had a movie flop which simply means he produced a movie that

was terrible. For the next seven years he didn't make a movie but in hindsight

he ended up realizing that those seven years of not making movies taught him

more about making movies than the years he spent making movies and somebody

asked him what did it teach him and he said to relax quote prepare the best you

can prepare as much as you can prepare prepare prepare then show up and throw it

all away just show up and see what happens close quote when it comes down to

performance and whatever performance looks like for you there is no substitute

for preparation for knowing that you put in the work to be as ready as you

possibly could for this moment but once the moment arrives it's important to

take Mike Nichols as advice and to throw it all away show up and see what

happened and see what happens because regardless of how much you prepared it is

still not an accurate it doesn't guarantee that you will be successful it

doesn't guarantee that you will win because that's life however preparation will

include increase the odds that you'll be successful but just know that the

person who you're competing against probably also can prepared probably also

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