Waking Up helped Grant be present for his own performance.

A circus performer at the end of his training, Grant believed his thesis act had to be a culmination of all he’d learned. Then he recalled a story from the app about a missing tourist who joins the search party for herself. The absurdity showed Grant that his idea of the act was an illusion; there was only the act itself, which he could perform with presence. Before stage time, he revisited the story as a reminder: “What’s here and now is already what I want to be doing.”