DJ with an Ego Are They Any Good?

0:00 Welcome to my video entitled DJs with Ego

Alright ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my video entitled DJs with Ego. DJs who feel as though they are the best things since sliced bread. DJs who think they are gods. I am not talking about some of the top 100 DJs. I'm not talking about those. I'm talking about your run-of-the-mill guy who you meet him in a pub. He started chatting, or he's with a group of friends and you don't know the guy or the girl. And he started chatting to them, welcome to my kitchen and I'm making a cup of coffee. And all of a sudden, he or she pipes up and says, oh, I'm a DJ. And you say, oh, I'm a DJ as well. Now straight away it's a bit like a cockfight. Hey, well I'm better than you, you're better than me, I'm better than you. It may not look like that, but it will be. Because let's imagine that DJ has...

1:56 You have brought them up, their guards up

So all of a sudden they're going to be thinking, I'm in a room with another DJ. I've got to prove how much better I am than them. So straight away they start talking about where they've been, who they played with, what they've done, how many women they've shagged, how many men they've shagged, depending on the course of which sex you are or for that matter, does it matter these days? And then of course it's the kit. Oh, I've got like a 10,000 watt PA system. How much have you got? Nine. Oh, I've got 1,000 watts more than you. It just may be that their PA system is inferior and you may have function one. A place they were in and the DJ had an ego and they felt intimidated by the other DJ because the other guy was just really taking the piss out of them. And my answer was ignore it, just move away, rise above it, because quite often if you are in

The predicament of chatting with someone who has an ego and who starts trying to prove that they're better than you, it means that they're worried. Think about it. It's psychology. They're actually worried. You have brought them up, their guards up. It's a bit like a war, isn't it? If you have two sides and one side, no! Beyond shadow of a doubt that they would be able to obliterate the other side. Would they be worried? No. Would they bring their ego? No. All they'd do is go, bye-bye, press the button, people gone. And then they'd carry on eating their buttered pieces of toast and drinking port and sherry. On the other hand, if they were worried and were concerned, they were like, yeah, but we've got bigger guns than you, yeah, we're much better than you because, like, look at us!

4:11 That yes, aren't you brilliant because

We're just bigger and you're tiny. Oh no, we've got some competition. That's what it's about, the competition. So ego quite often is a good thing and a bad thing. It's a good thing if you're on the other side of the ego because you should turn that around and think well if they're jealous about me being a DJ And they're trying to prove that they're better than me, and that means they're worried and maybe I am better than them. So in a way, if someone does have this big ego about being a fantastic DJ, and all of a sudden they start saying how much better they are than you, take it as a compliment. And my advice is very, very simple. Let them go bing, bing, bing, like the crazy frog. Let them go on and on and on and on about how wonderful they are. And if anything, compliment them on how wonderful they are. Explain that yes, aren't you brilliant because you've got like 10,000 watts of power. Isn't that fantastic? And you're spinning a turntable.

Subtactics are amazing and the way you move that slider up and down and turn your fiddle with your knob is brilliant, or even knobs for that matter. And then, lastly, before the event. Let's imagine before the event, and this does happen when there's two or three DJs and they're all going, oh well I'm better than you and I've played here and I've done that and I played in this country and travelled there and I went on a plane and I met so-and-so. Let them carry on. Let them do their thing. And then at the end of the night or during the course of the night, beginning of the night, whenever you're playing your set, do your set, walk away and say thank you very much, I hope that was great, I hope you enjoyed it. And let them explode inside with envious anger, knowing full well that you were probably better than them. But never say that you're better than them. Let your ego disappear and let their ego

Consume them and take them over. So there you go, right. Coffee time and I will finish off with saying practice and enjoy. I'm better than you so sod off. Practice and enjoy.

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