#356 Arena Mindset

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Chapters

• 0:01 Perspective Shift at the Arena
• 0:44 The Knockout Punch Principle
• 2:30 Setup vs. Execution in Performance
• 3:57 Mental and Physical Manifestation
• 4:58 Gratitude and Forward Motion

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Perspective. You know, the other day I went to a concert and it was in an arena and when I was approaching the arena I could see it. You know, I wasn't really thinking that many different things, but I felt like I started having an idea about something from my subconscious and then it came to fruition in real life and when I got in the arena I started thinking to myself, as far as stand up comedy goes, this needs to be my standard, this needs to be my filter as far as hitting the mark embodied by this idea of just being on stage and having everyone at the arena looking at me. I kept thinking that every joke that I need to say, that I need to have from now on, has to be filtered through the principle, the concept, the idea, the reality that it has to make everybody in here laugh. So it has to be good, great and beyond. It's a beautiful concept if you think about it, right, by just magnifying magnifying a simple seed of information to like a giant tree. Right, a simple idea, and just magnifying it right, because that, to me, is the ultimate test of, you know, thinking higher and being higher. Having higher actions comes as a result of having higher thoughts, right, and um, I was so really, I mean I don't want to say distracted, but I was more, uh, engaged, my mind was right with the idea of being on stage, in the arena, and, from the perspective of being down there instead of looking up, instead of being in a seat and looking down, I was just blown away. It was a beautiful moment and I'm using that from now on, from then on, as a benchmark for my success in comedy.

Speaker 1: 2:12

You know, I was writing jokes this morning and as I was writing them, I kept envisioning myself being on that stage, in the arena, and very easily, very easily, I knew what I should delete, what I should take out, what wasn't hitting hard enough, because every single line, word for word, my goal is always to have it be a knockout punch. If you're a professional boxer and your best punch was, let's just say, it's a certain knockout punch, but if you could throw that equal uh punch with every punch, with your jab, with your straight, with your um uppercut, with all of them, okay, as you could. Your one special punch. That's my goal and every word, the timing, the delivery, it all is a part of it, at the highest level of professional sports, when you're doing a combat sport, for example, it's for even, even for basketball take it as basketball right, they might actually fake a shot to make a pass. It's the setup that gets the pass there, it's not the pass, because the pass will be blocked at the highest level right. Or they might fake a pass and then go for a shot again. It's not the shot that makes it count, it's the setup, and it's no different.

Speaker 1: 3:28

As in comedy, right the misdirection only to reveal the greater, higher um purpose and point of what you're doing. When you can fold that over again and multiply by two and then fold it over, you're going to multiply and multiply and keep going on and on and on, right and on. My point is is that when you do that with something that you're passionate about, you're no longer working, you're just living. You're living that dream and you're getting paid. You're working and you're doing it and everything. But reaching that higher level comes from the mind, but it can, and also it doesn't have to, but it can also happen physically before it happens mentally.

Speaker 1: 4:14

For me it was a combination of both, because I was already kind of like feeling, like I had an idea about something, and when I got in the arena. That was the physical manifestation of it, and that's when the idea really came to life. And now I've lived that idea. So the beautiful part about that is that now I understand it as though I was on stage and it's going to help me insurmountably, like beyond measure, and I'm so thankful and I'm so happy about it.

Speaker 1: 4:40

And if anybody can take anything that I just said now and use it in your own life, that's great. Even better for you, right? Um, but, uh, I'm excited to get back to my writing. I'm excited to get back on stage and I have so much ahead of me and I'm I'm just really thankful and really happy. So, um, as always, uh, if there's anything in here that I said that helps you, awesome, even better, right, and for me, as always, again, this is another imprint on myself my advancements, note-taking, memorization, fulfillment, everything it's just nothing but good vibes. So I'm excited, I'm looking forward to everything that's next and I have a lot more to say, but I have actions to do. So y'all have a beautiful day. I'm Benjo, well done, check me out. Peace.