Steal the Show with Michael Port
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2015
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, author Michael Port returns to the show to share lessons learned from a 9 year acting career, and how we perform our best in high stakes situations.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Understanding the difference between approval and results
- How Michael turned dyslexia into an advantage
- Learning to turn our disadvantages into advantages
- The difference between self expression and self understanding
- Lessons in persistence and grit from a 9 year acting career
- Performing at our best in high stakes situations
- Why our desires eventually become stronger than our fears
- What causes people to quit when things become difficult
- How shame kills many of our dreams
- The 6 principles for managing high stakes situations
QUOTES
You can be a critic or a performer, but I don’t you can be both.
BOOKS AND RESOURCES
Michael Port has written five books including Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Booked Solid, Book Yourself Solid Illustrated, The Contrarian Effect and The New York Times Bestseller, The Think Big Manifesto.He’s been on virtually every television network, and these days can be found keynoting conferences around the world on how to get booked solid or performing his one-man show, The Think Big Revolution.
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| 1:18.4 | In this episode, author Michael Port returns to the show to share lessons learned from a nine-year acting career and how we perform our best in high stakes situations. |
| 1:29.0 | Michael, welcome to the Animostakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:32.0 | You're very welcome. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:34.4 | Yeah, so you know you and I go way back. I mean we had you here back when the show was |
| 1:39.7 | called Blogcast FM twice actually and you know I wanted to have you back because I know you have a |
| 1:45.1 | new book out but really what I wanted to do this time hopefully was to do a deeper dive |
| 1:49.6 | into parts of your story that we have never gotten to here or ideally that you've never told on |
| 1:53.9 | other shows. So on that can you tell us a bit about yourself, your background and |
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