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Steve Martin - "Be so good they can't ignore you." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  you by the Great News Podcast. Give it a listen because good
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  news should be heard. Today's quote comes from Steve
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  Martin, comedian, actor, playwright, author, and banjo
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  player. A man who spent decades at the
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  absolute top of his craft across multiple disciplines.
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  When asked how to make it in show business, he gave the same
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  answer every time and noticed that nobody ever took note of
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  it. He once said be so good they
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  can't ignore you. He knew why nobody took note of
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  it, because it's not the answer people want to hear.
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  What they want is here's how you get an agent.
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  Or here's how to write a script. Here's the formula, the recipe
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  for success, the shortcut, the contract, the inside track.
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  Martin's answer has none of that.
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  No networking tips, no platform strategies, no personal branding
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  frameworks. Just 6 words that redirect every
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  question about success back to the one thing that actually
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  creates it. The work.
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  The work itself. Think about what can't ignore
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  you really means not, won't ignore can't.
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  There's a level of excellence so undeniable that the gatekeepers,
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  whoever they are in your field, lose the ability to look past
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  it. Taste is subjective.
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  Relationships are fickle. Timing is uncertain.
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  A genuine, sustained, extraordinary craft has a
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  gravitational pull that eventually bends everything
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  toward it, and Martin earned the right to say this.
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  He spent years playing small venues, refining his act through
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  thousands of performances, obsessively studying what worked
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  and what didn't, before becoming one of the most successful
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  entertainers in American history.
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  He didn't network his way to the top, he worked his way there.
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  He became so good that the industry had no choice but to
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  respond. And this relates directly to
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  Naval Ravikant's 10,000 iterations quote we covered
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  recently. It's not passive repetition,
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  it's the relentless pursuit of better.
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  And it answers that question most people are secretly asking.
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  What do I do when the door won't open?
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  Martin's answer is the same every time.
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  Stop knocking. Get so good the door opens
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  itself. Every episode of this podcast is
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  an attempt to get a little bit better than the last one, not to
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  game an algorithm or engineer a viral moment, just to make
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  something good enough that it earns the next listen.
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  That's the only strategy I'm using to grow this show right
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  now, So if you like it, recommend it to a friend.
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  Martin was right, and he was right that nobody wants to hear
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  it too, because it's slower and harder and less glamorous than a
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  shortcut. But it's the only one that
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  actually works. So here's the question.
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  Are you spending more energy trying to be seen, or more
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  energy trying to be genuinely, undeniably good at the thing
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  you're trying to do? Because the visibility
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  strategies change, the platforms shift, the algorithms evolve,
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  but extraordinary craft has always had the same outcome.
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  Eventually, inevitably, people can't ignore it.
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  So be so good they can't ignore you.
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  That's the whole strategy right there.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod stationed with another daily
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  quote.