Cirque du Soleil has a secret,
and it’s big.
It is that the performers are failures. They
fail consistently, every day, every show, sometimes
every minute.
Every performer,
every day—failure.
Recently I went to a Cirque du Soleil show—not
my first, but the first I’ve seen with my
high-performance-coaching eyes. What I saw,
besides an
incredibly entertaining show and story with amazing
tricks, choreography, and acrobatics, was a bunch of
mistakes—failures, if you will. I suspect
very few in the audience noticed the mistakes, but I
did, and it got me thinking about failure, and its value
in high performance.
Each of those performers has failed so many times in
practice, if they are going to fail during the performance,
they know when and how it will happen. They know this
because it has already happened hundreds, thousands
of times. It happens in practice, in rehearsal, even in the
shows.
One performer, a clown-like character, was doing
gymnastics and tricks on a ladder. In addition to
doing the tricks, he had to keep the ladder on its two
feet. To begin any trick, he had to balance and climb
the ladder. Three times he got part or most of the way
up and slid back down, as if that were part of the
show. Truth was, he was failing. He had lost control
of the ladder and needed to start over.
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David's Story
is a professional business
coach, consultant, speaker
and trainer. She loves to coach, train and
speak to high performers and assist them to
perform
beyond what they ever thought possible.
Mattison has been a professional coach since
1997
and has worked in many diverse environments.
Her clients include entrepreneurs, coaches,
small
businesses, large multi-national firms,
athletes and
individuals. Mattison is certified as a
professional
coach by the International
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