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Worksheet for | How to Make Your Mark in the Funny Business (Episode 54)

Barry Katz is an American talent manager, producer, and podcaster who has discovered How do you respond to expectations? and represented many including , , Anthony Clark, Bill Gretchen Rubin, host of the Happier Burr, , Nick Swardson, Dane Podcast and author of The Four Cook, Tracy Morgan, Frank Caliendo, Darrell Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Hammond, , and Louis Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your C.K.

Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Barry joins us for episode 54 to discuss Better, Too), joined us for Episode 18 to rejection, self-doubt, “complicating winning,” discuss how answering this one simple work versus talent, being broken, and what it question gives us a framework to make takes to make your mark in the world of better decisions, manage time efficiently, comedy. Barry’s years of recognizing the suffer less stress, and engage with others innate talent in people and helping them more effectively. reach the upper echelons of show business give him some unique perspectives to share with us. ● Upholders -- Motivated by both outer and inner expectations. ● Questioners -- Challenge outer expectations unless they align with Fine-Tuning What You Want inner expectations. Barry started his career as a stand-up comic, and ● Obligers -- Meet outer expectations, through a chance encounter with Bobcat Do you agree with Will -- that you do but struggle to meet inner Goldthwait realized that he had an innate talent not have everything in you to rise to the expectations. for spotting talent. Using this talent, he was able top? What does Western society have to ● Rebel -- Resist all expectations -- to fine-tune his career of choice. gain if you believe this? What do you both outer and inner. Barry has stayed in the entertainment industry, gain by not believing this?

specifically comedy, by tapping into an innate Now understanding how you act and talent and cultivating it to a very high level. react based on your natural tendencies Take a moment, consider, and write down the toward outer and inner expectations, talents you have. Do any of these talents how would you leverage that awareness correlate with your current career? If so, which to improve the outcome? In what ways one? Can any of these talents help you fine-tune that path? If so, how would it look? could you have shifted the expectations Barry says, looking back, that the moment with to align with your natural tendencies? Bobcat was a defining moment and identification of his talent. Can you identify the first time your talent was put to use? ● Upholders -- Motivated by both outer and inner expectations. ● Questioners -- Challenge outer expectations unless they align with Making Your Mark inner expectations. ● Obligers -- Meet outer expectations, “As you grow in any business you’re in, to Do you agree with Will -- that you do but struggle to meet inner make your mark, you want to make an not have everything in you to rise to the expectations. impact -- you want to figure out how to do top? What does Western society have to ● Rebel -- Resist all expectations -- it,” says Barry. gain if you believe this? What do you both outer and inner. gain by not believing this? How are you making a mark in business Now understanding how you act and or on the people around you? What is react based on your natural tendencies your vision for what you want to toward outer and inner expectations, achieve? how would you leverage that awareness to improve the outcome? In what ways could you have shifted the expectations to align with your natural tendencies? ● Upholders -- Motivated by both outer and inner expectations. ● Questioners -- Challenge outer expectations unless they align with Broken People inner expectations. “When you are broken, you get to the next ● Obligers -- Meet outer expectations, level.” Barry talks about everyone having Do you agree with Will -- that you do but struggle to meet inner failure, adversity, and brokenness in their not have everything in you to rise to the expectations. lives and how that brokenness can lead to top? What does Western society have to ● Rebel -- Resist all expectations -- the next level or make you stronger. gain if you believe this? What do you both outer and inner. gain by not believing this? Every human faces adversity through Now understanding how you act and many different avenues in their lives. react based on your natural tendencies What challenges have you faced in your toward outer and inner expectations, life? Have those challenges made you how would you leverage that awareness stronger or have you allowed them to to improve the outcome? In what ways dominate your thoughts? What have could you have shifted the expectations you learned from those challenges? to align with your natural tendencies? ● Upholders -- Motivated by both outer and inner expectations. ● Questioners -- Challenge outer expectations unless they align with Recreating That One Thing inner expectations. Barry’s first major success was getting ● Obligers -- Meet outer expectations, Louis C.K. signed as Jerry 's Do you agree with Will -- that you do but struggle to meet inner opening act. That was his first “one thing” not have everything in you to rise to the expectations. that he recreated over and over until he top? What does Western society have to ● Rebel -- Resist all expectations -- made a career of it. gain if you believe this? What do you both outer and inner. gain by not believing this?

What experience in your life is that “one Now understanding how you act and thing” that you can recreate over and react based on your natural tendencies over again? How can you make that toward outer and inner expectations, “one thing” into a passion and a career? how would you leverage that awareness to improve the outcome? In what ways could you have shifted the expectations to align with your natural tendencies? ● Upholders -- Motivated by both outer and inner expectations. ● Questioners -- Challenge outer expectations unless they align with Rejection and Self-Doubt inner expectations. “It’s about the psychology of going through ● Obligers -- Meet outer expectations, [rejection] and knowing you can come out on Do you agree with Will -- that you do but struggle to meet inner the other side,” says Barry. Rejection is always not have everything in you to rise to the expectations. going to be an obstacle in life and can cause top? What does Western society have to ● Rebel -- Resist all expectations -- destructive self-doubt if it is not recognized. gain if you believe this? What do you both outer and inner. gain by not believing this? What moments of rejection in your life Now understanding how you act and have defined your actions and/or continue react based on your natural tendencies to define your actions? Do you refrain from toward outer and inner expectations, doing things with your talent because of a how would you leverage that awareness rejection, and if so, what are those things? Do you recognize the self-doubt to improve the outcome? In what ways soundtrack in your head, and what can you could you have shifted the expectations do to circumvent it? to align with your natural tendencies? ● Upholders -- Motivated by both outer and inner expectations. ● Questioners -- Challenge outer expectations unless they align with Focus and “Complicating inner expectations. Winning” ● Obligers -- Meet outer expectations, Barry goes in depth about people who waste Do you agree with Will -- that you do but struggle to meet inner time doing things that take away from their not have everything in you to rise to the expectations. focus. “If you can just stay to where you don’t top? What does Western society have to ● Rebel -- Resist all expectations -- lose focus, and you can stay where you don't gain if you believe this? What do you both outer and inner. go in that path that takes hours away from gain by not believing this? your focus, you’re going to be in great shape Now understanding how you act and no matter what you do,” says Barry. react based on your natural tendencies toward outer and inner expectations, What kind of preparation do you do for how would you leverage that awareness your career and/or passions? Do you lose to improve the outcome? In what ways focus on the goal and chase rabbits? If so, could you have shifted the expectations learn to recognize it and write it down here or in a journal for review. Barry calls the to align with your natural tendencies? loss of focus on the goal “complicating winning.” How are you complicating winning in your life? ● Upholders -- Motivated by both outer and inner expectations. ● Questioners -- Challenge outer expectations unless they align with Work vs. Talent inner expectations. How far can talent take you without hard ● Obligers -- Meet outer expectations, work? To this, Barry talks about the difference but struggle to meet inner between having talents and working hard. expectations. Some people, such as Dave Chappelle, will ● Rebel -- Resist all expectations -- always have innate talent without having to both outer and inner. put in extreme hours, but that does not negate the need to be dedicated to his craft Now understanding how you act and through hard work. react based on your natural tendencies toward outer and inner expectations, Think about your talent and how it how would you leverage that awareness manifests. Do you need to nurture that talent in order to build on it, or does it to improve the outcome? In what ways come naturally? How can you nurture that could you have shifted the expectations talent? What activities will help you build to align with your natural tendencies? on that talent and grow a career from it?

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