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The Great Acting Blog: “It Seemed So To Him”

22.09.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Some people only hear what they want to hear. Some people only see what they want to see. We tend to respond to a work via the prism of our own value system: a scene could be hilariously funny for one person, but utterly obscene...

The Great Acting Blog: “Responding To Adversity”

17.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

"Remember that it is not he who reviles you or strikes you, who insults you, but it is your opinion about these things as being insulting. When then a man irritates you, you must know that it is your own opinion which has irritated...

The Great Acting Blog: “Handling Unfair Criticism”

20.05.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I don't know anyone who likes being criticised. In fact, even the mere prospect of being criticised is enough to put many people off from attempting anything in the first place. Sometimes, criticism can have a positive impact, causing us to re-examine what we are...

The Great Acting Blog: “Stop Judging Experience And Expand Your Mind”

18.03.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

As the Stoics said, nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so - in other words, we decide whether what happens to us, or whether what might happen to us, is good or bad. This need to judge, this need to affix a label...

The Great Acting Blog: “Just Accept What Happens”

07.03.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

"Remember that it is not he who reviles you, who insults you, but it is your opinion about these things as being insulting. When then a man irritates you, you must know that it is your own opinion which has irritated you. Therefore, try not...

The Great Acting Blog: “Imagine What Comes First….”

03.03.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

We return once more to our friend, Epictetus: "When you are going to take in hand any act, remind yourself what kind of an act it is. If you are going to bathe, place before yourself what happens in the bath: some splashing the water, others...

The Great Acting Blog: “Responding To Shabby Behaviour”

10.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 17 Comments

Dealing with other human beings can be exhausting, demoralising and incomprehensible. It's like an endurance test designed by somebody with a particularly cruel imagination. A colleague, who we thought we had a good working relationship with, slights us for no apparent reason. A potential employer...

The Great Acting Blog : “The True Actor”

04.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

"there is a difference between mere brightness and real light; the latter has a definite source within itself, the other borrows it's radiance; the one is called forth by an illumination coming from the outside, and anyone who stands between the source and the object...

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