STAND OUT from the crowd - Leonardo DiCaprio (@LeoDiCaprio) - #Entspresso

Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is stand out from the crowd. Over to you, Leonardo DiCaprio. I wake up every morning with an espresso to keep me going.

Do you remember the audition when you first met De Niro? That was, yeah, I mean, that was one of those incredible auditions that came around that I suppose every kid had been waiting for for a long period of time because It's just not that often that you get a starring role above Robert De Niro in this incredible screenplay, and it was Ellen Barkin and Michael Caden Jones, and it was just, everyone was sort of fiending for this role. And I got down, I suppose, to the final 5, and there was like a last sort of day. Tobey was there, and I do remember thinking to myself, I gotta do something. I gotta do something to stand out. And in the audition, there was Art Linson, Michael Caden Jones— Art Linson was the producer— and De Niro. And I remember there was a mustard jar scene, and he had to jam a mustard jar in my eye repeatedly. It was an abuse scene. And the script sort of didn't call for it, but I got up and I— he said, "Now, is it empty? Is it empty?" And I got up and I screamed. No! Like, completely unnecessary, but I screamed in his face. And I sat there with my head looking like a red tomato. And everyone started laughing at me in the entire room. De Niro, everybody was in hysterics. And I sat there frozen thinking, oh my god, I just screwed this entire opportunity up. And I just sat there frozen. And then Bob, in traditional De Niro fashion, kind of just looked at me and went, It's good, it's good, it's good. And, uh, and, and then, you know, we carried on doing the scene. And I think I actually had dinner with De Niro recently, and he told me, no, I was the one who said— I was the one who said you should get the, get the job.

I love this message. I love this message so much because I think people routinely push down their genius. You have opportunities every single day to shine, to show your art, to be creative, to express yourself, to get better, to improve your skills. And instead of letting that shine, instead of being yourself, you worry about other people's expectations and you deliver a mediocre product or service to match their expectations. And more often than not, if you live your life to match somebody else's expectations, you're diminishing your own. And that's how most people live. Most people are so afraid to take a chance on something, to be themselves, because they're afraid of losing a client, or they're afraid of being rejected, or they're afraid of how they're gonna get judged. Where the reality is, that's how you're going to shine. If you wanna do something great, if you wanna have a big impact, you wanna make meaningful change in people's lives, The only way it's gonna happen is for you to be the best version of you, not anybody else's version. You don't go into a career because your parents want you to do this. You don't take on a new business because Inc. Magazine said it's a hot company to start. You do the thing that seems crazy. You do the thing that you're betting on yourself that may not make sense right now. And in every opportunity, every hour of the day, you have chances to be yourself or to be somebody else's version of you. And you need to train that muscle to trust you, to trust your instinct, to trust your gut, to take the risk when you feel afraid of how somebody else might react to it, to push through the pain and do it anyway. And not every situation is going to work out, but if you want to get to here with whatever your goals and aspirations are, the The only way to do it is if you release your genius. To stop pressuring it down. And yes, you may lose some opportunities, but you're gonna win some big ones. You're gonna build a successful business. You're gonna make a meaningful impact on a lot of people. You're gonna make a lot of money. So the next time you feel that inner itch to do things your way, to say something, to speak up in a meeting, to inject your art into the next project you're putting out. Take a chance and do it. Trust your genius. So the question of the day today is, I wanna know the last time you trusted your inner genius. Leave it in the comments below. I wanna join in the discussion, see what you have to say. Thank you guys so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe And I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso. I wake up every morning, espresso keep me go.