0042: Why It’s Easier To Go From 1 To 10 Than To Go From 0 To 1

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one of the joys of the dot-com
revolution uh a revolution in which i’ve
played uh a role and and participated
gleefully
is that it has created an incredible
amount of examination and
introspection into
business processes self-development
processes and so on
and i learned something very interesting
that kind of confirmed
um
a supposition that i had
and i want to share that with you
because i think it’s going to help you
get started on things i want to share
that with you next on this episode of
the vo heroes podcast
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i was reading an article
written by someone who was describing
their process of investing as an angel
investor which is usually the first
round of investing in a business idea
smaller numbers smaller amounts of cash
um different returns on investment
as opposed to the big investments that
we always hear about the big million you
know billion dollar investments these
are more like hundreds of thousands tens
of thousands of dollars seed money
and this investor was talking about why
they preferred
to invest in a company that already had
gotten started and was either struggling
or needed some guidance or needed some
access
to certain markets as opposed to
building a business from scratch
and
it got me thinking
based on the way he described this and
i’ll share that description with you in
just a moment it got me thinking about
how we as performers are constantly
trying to hone and refine what we do
but we have a distinct advantage over
creating a whole
new thing
rather than taking what we have and
making it better and what he said was
it’s a lot easier
on a scale of one to ten
to go from one which isn’t so great
to 10 which is awesome
than it is to go from zero
to one
and that was just like so
awesome for me because it made total
sense you’ve heard me talk many many
times about getting started
and how
hard it is sometimes for people to do
that they have to line up their pencils
and make sure they’re all sharpened and
make sure all their papers are moved the
papers on the left side of the desk to
the right side of the desk and now i’m
ready to get started to get started
right but there are some people who just
dive in make a mess make mistakes
whatever
and what he was saying was because some
of us have a
a reticence a a hesitation in actually
taking that very first step
it makes it even more difficult to go
from having nothing
having done nothing having created
nothing having experienced nothing
to experiencing
the first of a thousand steps right
that first
stab at a process or that first audition
or that first
ability to use a piece of tech or
whatever
it’s always a bigger hump to get over
going from zero to one than it is to go
from one to ten
meaning you’ve already got something you
know whether it works or it doesn’t work
right going back to the definition my
definition of success do more of what
works and less of what doesn’t you
already have some example that either
worked or didn’t work
and you can either keep doing the same
thing if it worked or you can change it
if it didn’t work in either case making
it better
as you repeat the process that’s a lot
easier when you have like a lump of clay
that you started with and you’re trying
to like you know make it prettier make
it better right
so this notion of
it’s usually harder to go from zero to
one
than it is to go from one
to ten
is something to bear in mind
when you’re faced with beginning
something new just notice that
say it to yourself
remind yourself of it
and then you know choose to answer it
like yeah you know not today
today i’m gonna go from zero to one
when you’re presented with you know i
tried that it didn’t work all that well
well okay take a look at why take a look
at why it didn’t work well and go from
one to ten or go from one to two and
then from two to three and then from
three to four
so i think this notion of it’s easier to
go from one to ten that it is to go from
zero to one is something that
will make our lives easier as we
approach such a
a crazy world as voiceover as acting
performance in general we’re constantly
starting new things i mean i think about
i thought about it the other day when i
had to sit down to
uh to do a self tape audition
you know if i had to reset up my
equipment every single time
that would be a lot harder than for me
to sit down in front of my equipment
like i can here
and go from one to ten go from not
having something done but having a
little bit set up to having something
done anyway i could beat this to death i
don’t want to do that but i would love
to know what you think of this notion
and if you’ve experienced
the hesitation of getting something
started because it’s such a big thing
and you don’t know if you’re going to
fail and you don’t you have the fear of
the unknown you know those fears that
we’ve talked about in other episodes
and if it’s easier for you to go from
yeah you know i don’t do that so well
but i can make it better or i don’t know
how to do this i need to get a coach to
help me or i need to get a consultant to
help me or i need to go to youtube and
look at some videos or i need to ask
david what you know what to do
to go from one to something higher than
one and one to ten for that investor was
easier to do than starting a company
from scratch
i just found it fascinating tell me what
you think in the comments below really
and if you’re not watching this on
voheros.com please go do that that’s
where the conversation is you know nice
and sane and controlled and i don’t have
to you know get rid of comments that are
goofy anyway that’s it i appreciate it
i’m david h lawrence 17th i thank you so
much for watching and for listening and
we’ll see you in the next episode of the
vo heroes podcast
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