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The Great Acting Blog: “Find Out What Needs To Be Improved”

10.09.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

In elite sport, coaches sometimes throw a young, untried player into the first team in order to find out what needs to be improved, and so turn him into the finished article. The coach does not expect the player to be successful at this stage...

The Great Acting Blog: “Honesty Creates Progress”

13.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

Without honest examination and reflection on ourselves and on our work, there can be no change, no growth, no improvement, no progression. Why? Because without that honesty we can never know what needs to be worked on, what needs to be discarded and what needs...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Are You Doing?”

27.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Sometimes, how we feel influences how well we think we're doing. But emotions are a poor indicator of our progress, they are liable to lead us up the garden path, and negative emotions can result in destructive decision-making. To measure our progress we need to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Accept The Invitation To Improve”

21.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

Embrace your mistakes and your failures and your wrong turnings. Don't ignore them, don't repress them, don't pretend they didn't happen. And don't see them as an affront to your self-esteem or evidence of your uselessness. They are in fact invitations to learn and make...

The Great Acting Blog: “Choose To Love Your Work”

10.05.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The purpose of continual improvement, of getting better, is to enable us to accomplish ever greater goals. Getting better at what we do means removing the obstacles to our advancement. But it's also true that the process of improving is pleasurable within itself. Seeing and feeling...

The Great Acting Blog: “Self-Awareness Is The Key To Accomplishment”

04.05.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Every project we attempt, every job we go for, every day we get out of bed, the worst that can happen is that we learn something. And occasionally, we may even accomplish our goals. That's the great thing about taking action, it helps us to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Keep Working”

09.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 9 Comments

We toil away day after day, but our increments of improvement can be so small as to seem imperceptible. But they are there. The only way to properly reveal our progress, is by placing ourselves under extraordinary pressure and seeing how we respond. Our ordinary day-to-day...

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