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Don’t try to perform the way you think your teacher wants you to. If you do that, you’ll be playing in order to “do it right.” That’s not bad to do when you’re in a class and learning something new, but on stage you have to be showing the audience what you think. When someone is auditioning to please someone else, it feels false. It just doesn’t work. You must be yourself, which takes practice. Another thing that helps: perform with the best people you can. Performing with good people may be more valuable than anything else, including having great teachers. You will absorb their pace, their standards, their energy. Being on stage with good people keeps you present, because you will be genuinely absorbed in what they do and have to say. Nothing makes you a better actor than being truly interested in seeing what’s coming.
How to Be the Greatest Improviser on Earth
Will Hines
his popular TED Talks on creativity, Sir Ken Robinson emphasizes the importance of taking risks and making mistakes. “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original,” he explains. “We’re running education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. We’re educating people out of their creative capacities.”
Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick, Ken Robinson
You are now in the midst of “flight or fight” just like your caveman ancestor. The stress response is controlled by the autonomic nervous system (ANS) which is in charge of all the body’s automatic responses. When you’re stressed, the ANS takes care of increasing your blood pressure, speeding up your heart beat, and breathing faster. No thinking required.
All Gain, No Pain
Bill Hartman
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