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For the actor… Having trouble listening in a scene?…Pretend like you’re hitchhiking on a dark night on a desolate road. You’re thirsty and starving and your feet are aching from walking all day. Because no one offered to give you a lift. You’re exhausted. A dirty semi-truck pulls over and the driver tells you toContinue reading “Listen Like You’re Hitchhiking”

For the actor… If you’re having trouble coming up with specific actions to play in a given scene, then just focus on raising the stakes. See if you can raise them to the point where your life depends on getting what you want. If you truly believe that it does, then the actions will takeContinue reading “As If Your Life Depends On It”

“If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field ofContinue reading “Follow Your Bliss”

“Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.” -Bobby Knight The hen asks the other farm animals: “Who will help me bake the bread?” No one replies. The hen later asks, “Who will help me eat the bread?” Everyone says: “I will!” -from the fable, The Little RedContinue reading “The Inspired Choice”

“People who reject you or your work aren’t giving you the real reason. They’re simply inserting ‘here is where I write a few generic sentences to sound polite.’ Even if you could completely answer the objection in that rejection letter, they’re still going to reject you. That’s because the rejector isn’t here to teach youContinue reading “No Is All You Need”

“Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants the play to be short, it is short; if long, it is long. If he wants you to act a poor man, a cripple, a public official, or a private person, see that youContinue reading “Play It With All Your Heart”

“You can’t get lucky if you don’t take action. The best opportunity in the world is just a missed opportunity if you don’t grab it.” -James Clear “Luck is a volume game disguised as a mystery. It’s what happens when you create enough surface area for opportunity to stick to…Luck is a heat-seeking missile thatContinue reading “More Than Luck”

“I’m one of these people that thinks that everybody has certain gifts when they’re born. Not everybody goes through the trouble of trying to figure out just what they are.” -Bob Dylan “If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. But theyContinue reading “Suck Now. But Not Suck Later.”

“Clarity isn’t about knowing what you want to do with your life, it’s about knowing what you want to do this week. You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need to know your next step.” -James Clear “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” -Rumi Do youContinue reading “Just Enough For One Step”

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” -Michelangelo Perhaps the reason you’re not going all out, not giving it everything you have, is that you’re worried, “What happens if my best isn’t goodContinue reading “What If My Best Isn’t Good Enough?”