Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
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Kind: captions Language: en what’s the system you’ve developed to get on stage and have that switch flipped because when you came on within two seconds it’s like this guy’s in a state of mind he’s in a state as we say yeah of like he’s here to perform he he knows what he’s here to do yeah there’s no like tiptoeing into it yeah so i was wondering what do you do the five ten minutes before or an hour before i don’t know what’s your kind of like warm-up routine yeah yeah i think you’re ready three hours before what i do is i like to do some form of exercise and i try to get out of my workout workout or you’re just trying to break a sweat what are you what’s that yeah trying to do on tour it’s just about body maintenance so i’ll do running i’ll do some pull-ups some core stuff just stuff to get my body going right and start breaking a sweat and what i love about like right around minute 30 to 45 is i’ll get out of my head and into my body and so much of life right now getting out of your head and it’s funny i i called you randomly i was appreciate i appreciate you picking up the phone the other day we had a long conversation we can get into that later but so much of i think what you do and what you put out in the world and i call it like tech twitter talk it’s all in your head intellectual it’s all just heady anxiety-inducing stuff ethereum’s up just solana’s this it’s like it’s all headshit right it’s not a body feeling thing right like grounding yourself two feet on the ground i’m here in this moment what do i do and so much of performance and to be great at it the best chappelle the best performers they’re not in their head they’re in their body they’re really there right somebody screams somebody says something somebody heckles they’re in their body when you watch steph curry play when i watch devin booker play these guys are so in their body right luca is the best at this he’s in his body he’s in the he’s in flow right and so luke is like a kid and kids do this well yeah kids do this pretty naturally i love that the older you get the more heavy you get which is you gotta yeah you gotta fight that right and so that’s a great way to get out of my head get into my body then i’ll probably i eat something um i take a shower and then i put i put on the outfit and for me it’s like being on stage uniform and putting on that it feels like a uniform and like for me it feels i wanted to feel like a show like from the watch to the jacket to the pants i’m like there’s a level of confidence that you have when you move into a room and you’re like hey from from my heels all the way up to my head i’m wearing my armor right like i’m coming correct right and you just you carry yourself with a little bop you’re like no i feel better about myself my isn’t slouching there’s no stains on my stuff you know what i mean like the moment i saw you today you walked in you’re wearing your tech pants i could tell you washed them a few times but there’s some stains on the back side you know what i’m saying but that feeling of like no man when i’m coming in here i’m gonna be fresher than sean yeah i’m gonna i’m gonna i’m just gonna be fresh yeah that already gives me a feeling of like confidence i know what i’m doing you know and and by the way the opener marcela like marcella was just like dressed to the nines you know this is it’s a feeling then i get to the show um i finish eating i’ll meditate so meditation for 10 to 15 minutes allow me to just again get out of my head and drop into my body and something simple just head space like i’m not getting too crazy about it um and what i love about head space specifically is so much of it is just basic breathing establishing a level of intention i’ll meditate then i’ll pray and for me like prayer is really important because it’s got to be about something bigger than just myself and my corporal being i’m like what am i doing this for and just establishing an intention and for me the intention is like love let me give joy to people right and i want the seed of everything that i’m doing to come from that not be like not be petty energy angry energy um i’m gonna prove you wrong energy like i’m in the laughter business like i’m here to make you feel joy right um and that warm feeling so establishing an attention there i get to the i’ll get to the venue about an hour before i have a double shot of espresso um i’ll let my bowels do what they do you always get those jitters like you gotta pee you gotta do what you gotta do and then about like 30 to 45 minutes before i like to be loose just with the with the staff right let them know like hey what’s up how are you door guy security guy openers right you know what i mean another way to get out of your head by the way yeah yeah be with others be there yeah they’re serving others in a way yeah and then um about a half an hour before um i’ll go to my green room i usually write it down i’ll write down it’ll just be on hotel notepad paper hey what are a couple new tags that i’m working on tonight right just move the ball forward a little bit remind myself yo i’m gonna do this um for example last night one of the things i talk about act one of the show was fertility and a new joke that i did was like you know what it’s like being infertile as a man i felt like woody and toy story when his arm got ripped off that was a that was just one line and i was like hey make sure you do the woody toy story line right you know and uh every show i try to add a few of these extra moments and you add that up over the course of like a year two years three years you start to see what works and what doesn’t work and i’ll i’ll have a thousand three thousand different variations of that right and then i get on stage and by the time i get on stage there’s just this feeling of like now it’s just pure play whatever happens happens right and um when i’m on stage what i try to do is i try to remember when when i’m opening in front of my crowd they’re like really hot and one of the things i try to remember is don’t yell don’t scream try to actually bring them to you like set the tempo of the game right don’t get like too excited or too hot like you can whip them up but then like sit down at the stool bring them to you and like make the room feel like it’s coming to you you know what i’m saying do you ever watch uh film of yourself basically yeah i watch tape all the time yeah and so i see bad habits it’s kind of brutal huh yeah yeah but it’s cool though actually like those moments where you like is very painful for your ego but there’s a lot of growth in that the only way to break through and get to like the next part is is that part