ACTING: DEAL WITH PROBLEMS AND REJECTION

ACTING: DEAL WITH PROBLEMS AND REJECTION

Deal with your fear. Everyone’s afraid in this business, actors and everyone else. Nothing is certain, no one has the answers, and very few people are willing to put themselves out there enough to truly be seen. No one wants to deal with the profound heartbreak of being told by a casting director, a network executive, or all of America that the art they created was crap. But that’s what it takes to make it. You have to push past the fear. And that starts with taking a fierce inventory of what your fear is and where it guides you. Sometimes it’s laziness, sometimes it’s working too hard on the wrong thing. Either way, you have to know where your fear is sabotaging you, and chances are it may be really hard to see. Where you’ll find it is in the patterns of behavior you’re currently following that keep leading you to the same place. What you want to do—making it big in this business—is going to require a serious disruption to your current patterns of behavior. To find yourself in a profoundly different place than you are now, you’re going to have to change profoundly. You’ll have to learn to deal with your fear. Feel the fear and do it anyways!

I like this myself. I think I write/post some of these more often. What do you think?

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