"My most public yet of my many humiliations" ... Seinfeld SE8/EP9 ...
Have you ever been "embarrassed"?
I once caught myself "dancing" in a mirror. I was so into the song I forgot what I was doing ... next thing I knew, I was out of control, and following that, I was in the mirror catching myself be a dumbass. Humiliated, I never really "danced" like that again.
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I remember one girl in our high school talent show - she loved country music.
This girl had really really long red hair. She was odd. Kind of left out. But she only cared about being a country music entertainer.
She sang at the talent show. Actually, she sang twice.
She was country before country was cool. Barbara Mandrell song. I remember it.
The first time she sang her song, her mic wasn't working. We all sat there listening to the song and watching the girl perform, but no one heard her.
She got a standing ovation.
Then they fixed the mic and she sang the song again. This time we could hear her.
No one clapped at the end. We all sat in stone silence.
I would think that is the definition of humiliation. I would be 'humiliated'.
Did that end her career?
Did the girl go home and kill herself? Nope.
She sang every chance she got. County fairs and on the road and whatever. She wasn't fazed by it.
Finally moved out to Branson, Mo. I think.
Flipped the script and showed all of us how it's done.
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Remember the Star Wars kid?
This kid filmed himself doing the worst ever battle scenes with what I think was a curtain rod.
Some high tech wizard took that footage and spliced it together with footage of Star Wars and the rest, as they say, is history.
He's been in over a dozen "made for" online clips of movies. Funny stuff.
The Star Wars kid is tremendously famous. But he was humiliated. His mom was humiliated. The whole family was humiliated.
They sued people. They tried to get it taken off the internet. They did everything they could to see to it everyone who ever watched the clip felt the shame they felt.
I don't get it.
The kid, if someone had believed in him and his family instilled some sense of confidence in him, could have had a multi million dollar future doing something cool.
The kid could have flipped the script.
Instead it turned out very different and the poor kid landed in the mental ward and years of therapy.
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Rebecca Black did this when her song and video for "Friday" went viral.
Everyone made fun of her. "Why should she try being a singer?" "She can't sing." "She's horrible!" "That song is stupid."
On and on.
The script other people wrote about her was one of negativity and doom.
She wouldn't have any of it. She flipped the script.
She made ban-k.
She was a kid who could have hidden and killed herself. She didn't.
She took what she could get at the time.
It didn't matter to her that the 'powers' that be at the record labels would never let her be a 'real' singer. She was using the Open Doors and Opportunity she was given to make something. Earn. And she did.
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There are people in this world that easily get embarrassed over things.
They get frozen like Han Solo in that chamber thing and then their life goes to crap.
Don't do that.
If you mess up, you mess up.
If things don't go 100% the way they should, you try again - if you can. And if you can't, you move on.
The lesson from that girl and the Star Wars kid couldn't be more clear. Embarrassment and humiliation can and will happen - but how you handle it makes all the difference.
You can find Open Doors and Opportunity when you flip the script. Take the 'bad' thing and turn it into a positive.
I'm embarrassed that I ever let myself be embarrassed over something so stupid as dancing.
So, who wants to dance?
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