The School of Greatness - 858 The Key to a Captivating Performance

Episode Date: October 4, 2019

BE AUTHENTIC- NO MATTER WHAT. We admire great performers. Whether in sports, business, or any other field, we can all appreciate true greatness. But do you have to be born with unique talents to achieve it? Is there a magical gene lottery? If you take the mystery out of the equation, you are left with a simple truth. That path to greatness requires hard work, dedication, and preparation. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisit a conversation I had with Valentin Chmerkovskiy, where he shares how to achieve your “Personal Greatness.” Valentin Chmerkovskiy is a Ukrainian-American professional dancer, best known for his appearances on the U.S. version of ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ where he won twice. He is a two-time World Latin Dance Champion (Junior and Youth) and a 14-time U.S. National Latin Dance champion. Learn what is needed to be a top performer in Episode 858. In This Episode You Will Learn: Why authenticity is more important than perfection (2:00) The importance of being consistent in your preparation (3:00) The steps to achieving personal greatness (3:30) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/858 and follow at instagram.com/858

This is 5-Minute Friday! Today we've got Val Chmierkowski, who is a Ukrainian-American professional dancer, best known for his appearances on Dancing with the Stars here in the U.S., which he won twice. He is a two-time world Latin dance champion, junior and youth, and a 14-time U.S. national Latin dance champion. Powerful. His new book, I'll Never Change My Name. Make sure to grab a copy right now and pre-order it.

I have a tour this spring, we're going on the road, and it's kind of the follow-up to a tour we did two years ago with my brother. And it's like, it meant a lot to us, and it did really well. And now we're going out on tour again, and I'm thinking, like, how are we going to make this the best tour ever? I mean, do I think of myself as the best dancer in the world not really honestly uh so how am i gonna produce the best product people have ever seen i realize like the best is really just you at your best at your like the most authentic you you can create The most authentic you you can create, that's the best version of what you can create, period. And so I learn a lot from others.

I observe and I don't have the ego to say, that's nothing worth my time. I'm very in tune with what others are doing. And I'm really very complimentary of what others do. But ultimately, I what i can from from learning from them but then you know i i make it as authentically me as possible and so you know back to your question i think people are really inspired by seeing people just super comfortable and authentically themselves you know whether they're playing ball or whether they're performing, dancing, I think it's just, or like playing music, creating music, I think.

Anybody that's creating are the most powerful when they're, you know, can exude that authenticity. How do you get to that place if you don't feel comfortable with yourself? Practice. Yeah. You know, I think ultimately it's like, it's not so, don't know it's it's it's it's pretty like it's not so fancy you know the like the road to success isn't as as

fancy or as like complex as people make it it's like honestly just action is really important doing like wake up be consistent in your preparation uh and and and it'll probably like you know most likely will add up like it's it's really mathematically proven formula of like the more you do something the more likely you will succeed in that you know it's like the chances are higher now there's no guarantees obviously but you you raising the chances of your success by it by continuously doing something but yeah preparation I grew up my dad had wrote this huge quote over his his desk because at the dance studio you know my dad owned the dance studio ultimately got into the business of dance because my brother was, you know, wanted to open up a dance studio.

Yeah. So he was the teacher and my dad kind of managed that. So I was there every day. And over his desk, his favorite quote is, fail to prepare, you prepare to fail. And pretty, like, I mean, to some degree, it's pretty shallow of a phrase. I mean, it's definitely a cliche that everyone knows now. But I'm old school like that. I really believe that, you know, confidence.

It's like chicken or the egg. What comes first, the confidence or, you know, or the great performance? You know, you have a great performance, so you start believing in yourself. Then you have the confidence. Or do you have to have confidence first to really perform at your best? But honestly's just like work you know that's the it's

like the the poster you have yeah you know it's like an iceberg and people really just the performance is just the tip of the iceberg behind that is all the the meat of it Hey guys, if you enjoyed this inspirational clip from a past episode of the show, then you'll love the free book I'm giving away right now. It's called The Millionaire Morning. It includes some of my best tips for starting off your day with a millionaire mindset. Get your free copy at themillionairemorning.com and just pay shipping. Again, check it out right now, themillionairemorning.com.