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People often ask me what they should do to redress the balance between the brain hemispheres. The first step to recovering anything is to be aware of how much you are missing by your way of being in the world. So the first question to ask yourself should be: what does my particular take on reality exclude from my vision? There is of course a paradox, in that if you can’t see it, how can you know what it is?
Metaphors Can Make You Blind
Iain McGilchrist
WHEN THIS HAPPENS… After I’ve asked a question… INSTEAD OF… Adding another question. And then maybe another question, and then another, because after all, they’re all good questions and I’m really curious as to what their answers are… I WILL… Ask just one question. (And then be quiet while I wait for the answer.)
The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier
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
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