Good morning. Welcome to the Increased Rimpact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,900. And two, today's episode comes from

Billy Oppenheimer's newsletter 6 at 6. And this one comes from 2006. It was a Golden Globe Award,

Golden Globe Awards, and actor Philip Seymour had just won the award for best actor in a motion picture.

And he explained his approach that helped him reach the top of his profession.

He was given a question, how or what advice does he have for aspiring actors?

And he said this, quote quote this is something a teacher

told me years ago and he's right even if you're auditioning for something that you know you're

never going to get or for something you read and didn't like if you get a chance to act in a room

that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given

a free chance to practice your craft.

And in that moment, you should act as well as you can.

Because when you act as well as you can, Hoffman continues, there's no way the people who

have watched you will forget it.

So it leads to opportunities.

But more importantly, at the end of the day, all that matters is the work.

Everybody knows that.

If I show up one day and the work I'm doing isn't any good, that I'm just a guy who's not acting well.

So I would say to anybody starting out, if you're given a chance to act, take those words and bring them alive. If you do that, something good will transpire ultimately, close quote. What I really like about this story is that it reminds me of one of my

favorite quotes from Walt Disney. He said this, quote, whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when

people see you do it, they will want to come back and see you do it again. And they will want to bring

others and show them how well you do

what you do. Close quote. What's so good about both of those is that it's a simple reminder to focus on

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