Matt Del Negro | Overcoming Rejection

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Jon Gordon

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🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jon is joined on this episode of Positive University by actor Matt Del Negro. Over the course of his very successful acting carer, Matt has learned the valuable lesson of how to overcome rejection and keep pushing, despite the nature of the acting business. Jon and Matt go in depth on how to learn from the no’s, handle uncertainty, and figure out if something is worth pursuing for you.

Purchase Matt’s book, 10,000 No’s here: https://www.10000nos.com/book

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You, and my guest today is Matthew Del Negro, a
0:13.8	very, very famous actor, but he's also an author of a great book called Matthew What's
0:20.8	That Book Called?
0:21.8	10,000 Nose, How to Overcome Rejection on the Way to Your Yes as the whole title.
0:27.7	And I think you know about rejection as an actor, like 10,000 Nose. You wrote that book because
0:33.2	you've experienced all the Nose in your life to achieve the success that you have. How important
0:38.8	is it to deal with the Nose, to overcome the Nose, to achieve what you want to achieve?
0:44.5	I mean, it's kind of everything, you know, I talk to people, I go talk to groups and I tell them
0:50.4	you could be the most talented actor in the world. It doesn't matter if a no, if a rejection is
0:58.8	going to make you curl up in a ball and not be able to go out and do your next audition because
1:03.6	you are told no, you know, all the time. And if you can't be in the game, if you can't take
1:10.5	the steps, you just, that's it. You're cutting yourself off. So it's kind of, you know, it's like,
1:16.0	it's like step one, you know, tell me just some of the movies and TV shows that you've been in
1:23.2	to give people an idea of the kind of work that you do and the kind of shows you've been on.
1:26.7	Okay. I know you're humble, but I know you're humble, but I want people to know.
1:30.2	We could you put me on the spot. Yeah. So all right. So Prano's the West Wing scandal,
1:37.6	currently on City on a Hill with Kevin Bacon, Aldous Hodge on Showtime,
1:42.0	um, uh, Goliath, uh, huge in France was this great Netflix show that nobody probably heard of,
1:49.4	but it's actually probably my favorite out of all those. Um, uh,
1:53.4	uh, time to the United States of Tara, Wind River was a movie, Hot Pursuit was a movie, uh,
1:59.6	been doing a long time. So and then all of the, you know, the standards that people want to hear
2:03.5	the law and orders, the CIS is the NCIS is all that kind of stuff. But, um, yeah, been doing a long time.
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