19

The Goldilocks Rule: How to Stay

Motivated in Life and Work

IN 1955, Disneyland had just opened in Anaheim, California, when a

ten-year-old boy walked in and asked for a job. Labor laws were

loose back then and the boy managed to land a position selling

guidebooks for $0.50 apiece.

Within a year, he had transitioned to Disney’s magic shop, where he

learned tricks from the older employees. He experimented with jokes

and tried out simple routines on visitors. Soon he discovered that what

he loved was not performing magic but performing in general. He set

his sights on becoming a comedian.

Beginning in his teenage years, he started performing in little clubs

around Los Angeles. The crowds were small and his act was short. He

was rarely on stage for more than five minutes. Most of the people in

the crowd were too busy drinking or talking with friends to pay

attention. One night, he literally delivered his stand-up routine to an

empty club.

It wasn’t glamorous work, but there was no doubt he was getting

better. His first routines would only last one or two minutes. By high

school, his material had expanded to include a five-minute act and, a

few years later, a ten-minute show. At nineteen, he was performing

weekly for twenty minutes at a time. He had to read three poems

during the show just to make the routine long enough, but his skills

continued to progress.

He spent another decade experimenting, adjusting, and practicing.

He took a job as a television writer and, gradually, he was able to land

his own appearances on talk shows. By the mid-1970s, he had worked

his way into being a regular guest on The Tonight Show and Saturday

Night Live.

Finally, after nearly fifteen years of work, the young man rose to

fame. He toured sixty cities in sixty-three days. Then seventy-two cities

in eighty days. Then eighty-five cities in ninety days. He had 18,695

people attend one show in Ohio. Another 45,000 tickets were sold for

his three-day show in New York. He catapulted to the top of his genre

and became one of the most successful comedians of his time.

His name is Steve Martin.

🟢📚هایلایت قسمت ۱۴۸ کتاب عادت های اتمی 📚🟢

✅ loose : شل و سست

✅ manage to: موفق شدن

✅ Land: رسیدن

✅ position : موقعیت

✅ guidebook : کتاب راهنما

✅ apiece : هرکدام

✅ transition : تغییر کردن، منتقل شدن

✅ Trick : حقه شعبده بازی

✅ employees : کارمندان

✅ experiment : سبک سنگین کردن

✅ visitor: بازدید کننده

✅ discover: کشف کردن

✅ in general : در کل

✅ set sights on: تمرکز کردن روی هدفی

✅ teenage : نوجوان

✅ crowd: جمعیت

✅ rarely : به ندرت

✅ attention : توجه

✅ literally : به معنای واقعی کلمه

✅ deliver: رساندن

✅ Stand-up: استنداپ

✅ empty : خالی

✅ glamorous : درخشان

✅ material : ماده

✅ expand: گسترش یافتن

✅ include : شامل شدن

✅ weekly : هفتگی

✅ poems : اشعار

✅ decade : دهه

✅ adjusting : تنظیم کردن

✅ gradually : کم کم

✅ appearance: ظهور، ظاهر

✅ tour: برنامه گذاشتن

✅ catapulted : با شتاب پرت شدن

✅ genre: ژانر، سبک

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