Jerry Seinfeld was arguably the most successful comedian of all time.
In fact, at his career peak, he was making an astounding $267 million per year.
That’s a lot of cash.
It didn’t happen overnight.
And there’s a story that gives a lot of insight into why he was the best.
The secret to his success which can be applied to anything.
Story goes like this:
Brad Isaac was a young comedian, and fateful one night, found himself performing in the same club as Jerry.
He asked Jerry what the secret was to writing such an unending amount of great jokes.
Jerry said the following.
The only secret to writing great jokes is to write everyday.
He told Brad to go get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on a page and hang it on a prominent wall. Next step was to get a big red magic marker.
“For each day that I do my daily task of writing, I mark it with a big red X, he said.”
“After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job is to NOT break the chain.”
Seinfeld didn’t say anything about results. Notice that?
It didn’t matter if he was motivated or not. It didn’t matter if he was writing great jokes or not. All that mattered was he wasn’t breaking the chain.
And that is a secret to Jerry Seinfeld’s great joke writing. For years, the comedian simply focused on not “breaking the chain.”
I just ordered my big wall calendar.
Wifey and I are still not quite clear on where it’s gonna go.
Marriage… 😉
But can you imagine how far along you would be if you did this with practicing piano?
Especially with a program like the Layer Method where you leap frog traditional learning as it is, but with this kind of discipline, “not breaking the chain” you would be a serious piano player.
You’re biggest challenge would be to find the time to play all the songs you now are able to.
Go get your wall calendar.
Argue with your spouse (if you have one) about where it goes.
And then start creating the chain.
Don’t break it.
And see what happens.
10-15 minutes a day will change your life.
Start now.
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Tim (PianoFool)
