Find Inner Peace Amidst Change | Wayne Brady EP 363

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1:16Whenever I have watched you on TV, you look like you have all the energy in the world, all the creativity, the spontaneity, the genius in you comes out in those moments. But I'm assuming, I don't want to assume that much, there's probably days where you're like, I don't want to go to this show right now. There's so many days like that. How do you keep your mindset in a place of, I'm here to deliver and perform a great performance that you can do while your battery is drained? A piece of me just says that it's as simple as I'm an old school showman and a performer and, you know, that adage, the show must go on.

1:53Wow. Which is also one of the most toxic, self-toxic sayings. Yeah, the show must go on. I've learned to perform through family tragedies, through migraines, through ripped ACLs, you know. But anyone, I think, that functions at a certain level, you know, especially athletes. You play with injuries. and play with injuries and then you go home and you'll collapse later. You know, an athlete, a dancer, an actor, the CEO of a company. Yeah, you got to show up. But how did you develop that mindset for so long? Like it's been decades for you showing up and performing. Like how do you keep your mind strong when your emotions or your heart feels weak?

2:40I developed that as a kid. I developed that because if you derive all of your identity and everything that is good, you think, in your life from the thing you do. If you don't do that thing well or it goes down at some point, then what does that say about you? Oh, interesting. So I developed very early on. I might suck at relationships, which I do. I might suck at this and I can't cook that thing. I'll burn this. But I tell you what, I will get on that stage. and I will kill that. So don't even. And if you don't kill it, what does that say about you? Right, then I have slash and or am nothing.

3:29Wow. So I have no choice. So whatever I'm feeling, I am going to drag myself on that stage and do it. But that also only works for X amount of time. And now I understand that more so because no matter how much, sometimes I go, all right, I'm going to get rid of that. If you're not in total agreement and accordance with your mind and your spirit and your body, it becomes harder to do. And I only assume, because I haven't gotten there yet and I don't plan on it because I'm doing the work, I only assume there does come a time when the machine will not go. No matter what you say, that's my thing. I'm not going to let that happen.

4:14That's why I feel that your intention has got to be set because you've got to think of this in the long term. You have to think of it as not a sprint. You have to think of your career as a marathon. I'm going to lay the seeds. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. I'm going to take care of myself each step of the way.

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5:47Thank you.