Coaching an International Champion of Magic to Climb His Next Mountain | Stuart MacDonald | Ep 1103 — Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong

"The winning is in that tenth of a second." - Stuart MacDonald

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Stuart MacDonald for a live coaching conversation. Stuart is a magician and keynote speaker who used the lean and continuous improvement he learned in the corporate world to invent a brand new world-class act. In a single year that act won him the international title, People's Choice and Originality, and he fooled Penn & Teller on national television. Today his keynotes show the corporate world that lean and continuous improvement practiced in your personal life first translates to work a lot easier, and he leaves this conversation ready to compete again, this time in speaking.

You'll walk away with:
- The two percent rule, and why the winning lives in that last tenth of a second
- Why lean and continuous improvement have to live in your personal life before they stick at work
- How to make your next goal translational, not aspirational, by doing again what already worked

Timestamps:

00:00 - Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast
01:08 - The Magician Who Learned Lean
02:17 - Using Lean to Invent a World-Class Act
03:39 - Winning Everything and Fooling Penn & Teller
05:21 - The Keynote: Lean Starts at Home
07:54 - You Work at a World-Class Level
10:01 - What Would World-Class Speaking Look Like?
14:02 - How a Performer Gets Booked
18:15 - Bright Spots: Where You've Already Won
20:14 - Training for an Ironman While Building the Act
21:42 - Competing Is Where He Likes to Live
27:35 - What Does Every Speaker Know?
28:30 - Not Aspirational, Translational
33:42 - Finding the Next Mountain to Climb
40:32 - The Two Percent Rule
44:09 - Stuart's Aha: Competition, Now in Speaking

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