In today’s episode I share a powerful insight from famous actor and theatre teacher, Uta Hagen. She reminds us that there is no prize for spending your life looking, acting and thinking the same way as everyone else.
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Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.
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Speaker:And I share with you a really great, great.
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Speaker:I'm going to share with you a great.
Speaker:I don't know what a great is, but as soon as I find it, I'm
Speaker:going to share it with you.
Speaker:But meanwhile, while we're waiting for the Guede.
Speaker:I'm going to share with you a great quote from the really interesting Uttar Haagen.
Speaker:it was an actress and a theater practitioner.
Speaker:In the United States in the sort of 1960s and seventies.
Speaker:A woman who deeply, deeply loved her craft and was incredibly committed to it.
Speaker:I actually believe it or not.
Speaker:Did.
Speaker:Undergraduate drama at a university or college for my American friends.
Speaker:And, uh, you know, I actually came across quite a few of these fascinating
Speaker:men and women who developed.
Speaker:Some really interesting approaches to acting in theater and drama.
Speaker:And, uh, gosh, I'm glad that there were no smartphones back then.
Speaker:Some of the videos or some of the, some of the acting and drama that I was doing.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I'll tell you a story.
Speaker:Once I remember being in this room.
Speaker:And if you've met me in person, I'm a bit of a kind of guys guy in a sense, right?
Speaker:Like I do a lot of weights, I'm kind of into that sort of stuff.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:Picture me in an undergraduate drama classroom, this really happened.
Speaker:And they had this amazing lady who'd come all the way from Canada and she
Speaker:was teaching, um, movement theory.
Speaker:I'm not making this up.
Speaker:I'm sitting there.
Speaker:I think I was in a rugby Jersey or rugby top.
Speaker:And she just singled me out and she said, Jonathan, stand up.
Speaker:And I'm like really nervous at this point.
Speaker:So I stood up.
Speaker:And she said, Jonathan, dance, your emotions.
Speaker:And time just stood still my friends.
Speaker:I've just, I was just standing thinking, well, first I don't have emotions and if
Speaker:I did, I wouldn't be dancing them for you.
Speaker:Um, so, uh, but I, I don't remember what happened.
Speaker:I think a memory hold that I've blacked it out.
Speaker:I'm unsure if I can remember what I did, but I did something I survived.
Speaker:So anyway, long story, but.
Speaker:Definitely had some exposure to dance and drama theory.
Speaker:People are interesting, right?
Speaker:Most of you wouldn't have known that about me.
Speaker:Scenario Udo.
Speaker:The Haagen is a, a really influential drummer and movement teacher.
Speaker:So she spent so much of her life trying to help people.
Speaker:Discover and unleash their unique gifts in that particular space.
Speaker:So listen to this quote, I want to share with you, she says this.
Speaker:We must overcome the notion that we must be regular.
Speaker:It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.
Speaker:And leads you to the mediocre.
Speaker:There is a lot in that.
Speaker:So this idea that we must be regular in the pot, in the YouTube version today,
Speaker:if you want to click across to that, I go into more detail on this, but I made
Speaker:the point that, you know, think back to primary school, elementary school, high
Speaker:school, there was not a lot of upside for standing out from the crowd, right?
Speaker:Like we learned from a very young age to kind of.
Speaker:You know, sometimes bury some of the magic that's inside us.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:We don't want to stand out too much.
Speaker:It's really interesting because this is a species we've definitely
Speaker:learned to value group belonging.
Speaker:But we also, especially at this moment in history, have a great interest in unique
Speaker:and uniquely gifted and talented people.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Look at your Elon Musks, people like that.
Speaker:You.
Speaker:We all get sort of fascinated by their lives and wonder of their.
Speaker:Remarkably different.
Speaker:I don't think they're remarkably different.
Speaker:I think what they've done.
Speaker:He's been able to identify their unique superpowers and then they've
Speaker:been lucky enough and Lux important because you can have tons of people
Speaker:that don't get the same opportunities.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:But they've had the luck to be in systems and structures that have
Speaker:allowed them to pursue those goals.
Speaker:And then we re we sort of Marvel at them because they're
Speaker:the definitely not mediocre.
Speaker:They're extraordinary.
Speaker:So the question is, are all of us capable of the same thing?
Speaker:I think unequivocally, yes.
Speaker:In the video today, I say, look, the 7 billion people on the planet.
Speaker:Give or take.
Speaker:And every single person has unique gifts and abilities.
Speaker:You know, I'm thinking of that.
Speaker:I'm amazing.
Speaker:Motivational speaker, Nick.
Speaker:I can't remember his last name who was born with a rare condition
Speaker:and did not have ums or legs.
Speaker:Some of you will know exactly who I'm talking about.
Speaker:And he's gone on to be one of the most brilliant motivational speakers, you
Speaker:know, he's just had a massive impact.
Speaker:So despite the limitations, he was still able to identify these
Speaker:unique gifts and talents inside him.
Speaker:So I just truly believe that every single one of us has these
Speaker:unique capacities and abilities.
Speaker:So I want to say to you today,
Speaker:Are you in touch with your unique gifts and abilities?
Speaker:Do you, do you hide them?
Speaker:Have you.
Speaker:Did you make a bog and years ago to kind of, not really.
Speaker:Be who you really are and sort of hide some of that stuff.
Speaker:Look, we've all got, you know, commitments.
Speaker:We've all got, uh, You know, expectations upon our lives, things that we have to do.
Speaker:But we need to try and make sure that that doesn't allow us to bury that
Speaker:unique and unique giftedness that's inside every single one of this.
Speaker:So my message for you today, my friend is, as you go through the day, I want
Speaker:you to start thinking about this.
Speaker:When you start meditating a bit upon this idea.
Speaker:Are you being regular?
Speaker:Have you lost your chance to be extraordinary?
Speaker:Are you, are you feeling that things are a bit mediocre because it's no one's
Speaker:fault, but there's always time, right?
Speaker:There's always time while you've still got breath.
Speaker:There is still chance to.
Speaker:Check in with yourself to reconnect to those special, unique gifts and
Speaker:abilities that have always been there.
Speaker:And that the world still desperately needs to receive.
Speaker:From you.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So in cosmic history, there has never been another one of you and there
Speaker:will never be another one of you.
Speaker:So let's not be mediocre.
Speaker:Let's go for the extraordinary, this is not arrogance.
Speaker:This is not pride.
Speaker:This is simply living the fullness of Hebrew credits to be in the video.
Speaker:Again, I was talking about my kids.
Speaker:I say, I'm a parent.
Speaker:One of the coolest things you experienced as a parent is seeing your kids pursue and
Speaker:develop their unique gifts and abilities.
Speaker:You don't want your child to look exactly the same as everybody else.
Speaker:You're looking for difference.
Speaker:So that's the message today.
Speaker:I hope it's an encouragement to all of you.
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