Confident

IN MY OPINION;

WILLIAM REYNOLDS;

CONFIDENT FOR A GOOD REASON

Fake it ’til you make it, they tell us, and I couldn’t disagree more.

People who are trying hard to come across as confident, for example, can mistakenly behave arrogantly simply because they haven’t figured out what real confidence is or what it means to them. They try to be a showboat, blah, blah, That is a turn off to me and most other casting director types. They’ll talk over someone in a meeting, or audition because that’s what they think confident people do. They’ll voice an opinion without thinking about its impact, because they think confident people make themselves heard. And they’ll steamroll their view forward, because confident people stick to their guns. That’s BS, of course. Pretending to be confident sees you trying to live up to a heap of half-brained notions of what confidence might be, without ever asking yourself what real, natural confidence/training/ability actually looks like for you.

You don’t need to fake confidence. Confidence is earned.