Cultivate a Growth Mindset for Achieving Your Dreams | Bert Kreischer EP 419

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0:51And how do you keep your confidence up? And how do you build the confidence, keep it up if something's not going your way on stage? I don't know if this is fool's gold, but you kind of need things to not go right on stage to know you're going in the right direction. Really? Yeah. Anyone who's killing every time they go on stage, they're not taking enough chances. They're not risking. Yeah, you got to risk things, and you got to fail. And you got to fail epically at times. It took me like a solid year to get the machine story to work at all. You kept trying, and it just wasn't working. Dude, we're talking about, this is back when I toured clubs.

1:25So we're talking about six shows a weekend, working 40 weekends a year. And then at the end of that year, I kind of got it where it started working. Because you're doing what, 10, 15 minute segments? No, no, no, I was doing an hour. An hour, six times a weekend. Six times a weekend, holy cow. And it wasn't for a year, it wasn't landing. It wasn't landing. How do you, why do you keep doing it when you know? Because you know it's there. You know it's there. Even though it's bombing every time, or there's no laughs. There's always something, there's always something where you go, this is God, like it's a, I had a joke about Confederate statues.

1:56I knew there was something there. I didn't know what the joke was, but I knew there was something there. And it was like nine different ways of racist before it got to work. But I knew something was there. And when I finally solved it, I went, I got it. It's a great joke. And if it is anything, it's very progressive. But you got to just break the eggs to make the omelet. You can't just make an omelet with no shells anywhere. Is there any joke that you thought was there that you haven't figured out yet over the years? Yeah, there's a bunch. Do you still feel like it could be there? Oh, there's one I figured out last week in Austin that I've been chewing on for like 10 years.

2:35Come on, 10 years you've been thinking about it. You try it every now and then once every couple of years. I got it and it would get like a smash. The statement in and of itself was working, but nothing around it was working. The punchline was working, you mean, or like? No, the concept, the concept. The concept was there. I just couldn't figure out how to tell it and it was based on a true story and I couldn't figure out the thing and then And I'd always had it. I remember I said it to Segura one time and he laughed hysterically He's like is that a bit I was like no, but I said it at a Chinese New Year's party And it killed when I said it and then I told him the story and he goes shut the fuck up And he's like are you doing that?

3:15I was like I can't get it to work Because you tried it in a club. I tried it and it just came off and there's sometimes with some jokes especially, you know anything a little edgier, you got to find the lubricant to get it there. And you got to find the friendliness. I had another joke. There's two jokes in this new hour that one I wrote probably 13 years ago. 13 years ago, I had an experience with this child. He's now an adult. He has a child. He's bigger than I am. And I had an experience with him 13 years ago that made me giggle. And I knew the word that he used to talk to me. And then my wife one day said something about how she had dated a cousin and and found out at a family reunion and i was like huh and she said something that made me laugh like what her dad said to defend it was hilarious and then i was like okay i'm gonna i'm gonna tell these as one so you just you know it's almost like keeping like really good notes about your ideas and then going back and going like oh that that that can work now or i'm a better comic and now i can get that to work you become a better comic And then you look at bits that you couldn't get to work.

4:23And then you're like, oh, I can get back to work.

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