858 The Key to a Captivating Performance

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 Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  This is Five Minute Friday.

• 0:10Lewis Howes?

  Today, we've got Val Chmerkovskiy, who is a Ukrainian-American professional dancer, best known for his appearances on Dancing with the Stars here in the US, which he won twice. He is a two-time World Latin Dance Champion, Junior and Youth, and a 14-time US National Latin Dance Champion. Powerful. His new book, I'll Never Change My Name. Make sure to grab a copy right now and preorder it.

• 0:45Speaker 01

  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 gonna make this the best tour ever? I mean, do I think of myself as the best dancer in the world? Not really, honestly. So how am I gonna produce the best product people have ever seen? And I realize like, the best is really just you at your best, at your best, like the most authentic you you can create. That's the best version of what you can create,

• 1:27Speaker 01

  period. You know, and so I'm, 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, you know, very complimentary of what others do. But ultimately, I take what I can from, from learning from them. But then, you know, 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

• 2:07Speaker 01

  like, playing music, creating music. I think anybody that's creating are the most powerful when they're, you know, can exude that authenticity.

• 2:18Lewis Howes?

  How do you get to that place if you don't feel comfortable with yourself?

• 2:20Speaker 01

  Practice. You know, I think ultimately, it's like...

• 2:25Speaker 01

  It's not so, I 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 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. 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 are no guarantees, obviously, but you, you raising the chances of your success by, by continuously doing something.

• 3:10Speaker 01

  But, yeah, preparation, I grew up, my dad had, wrote this huge quote over his, uh, his desk, because at the dance studio, you know, my, 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, my dad kind of managed that. And so, I, I was there every day and over his desk is, 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 is definitely a cliche that everyone knows now, uh, but I'm old school like that. I really believe that, that, you know, confidence, it's like chicken and the egg, what comes first?

• 3:52Speaker 01

  The confidence or, or, or, you know, or the, the great performance? You know, you have a great performance, so you start believing in yourself, then you have the confidence. Or you have to have confidence first to, to really perform at your best. But honestly, it'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, and people really just, the performance is just the tip of the iceberg. Mm-hmm. Behind it is, is all the, the meat of it.

• 4:27Lewis Howes?

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