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The Great Acting Blog: “Having A Superobjective Leads To Artistic Acting”

18.09.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

There's always more work to do. It's never done. The problem with overloading ourselves with too many tasks at any given moment however, is that it leads to panicky decision-making, a diminution in our level of performance, fatigue and the placing of too much meaning...

The Great Acting Blog: “There Are No Perfect Choices”

11.09.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Which ever direction you choose, there's almost always a trade-off, you gain one thing but you lose something else. There's rarely a perfect option. That's why it's important to prioritise what you want from your work: what is it that you want? Artistic control? Money?...

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: “Discover The Right Path By Taking Action”

18.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

When we find the right course of action, the one that feels true to us, we become fully activated, inner tensions and ambivalences vanish. We feel solid and organised, excited, optimistic and generous. We can't wait to get to work, carried along by momentum. The...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Achievement Trap”

09.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

When we successfully complete one of our long term objectives, we [quite rightly] take some time to relax, to acknowledge what we've done, enjoy it and let it sink in. All is good in the world, we feel a sense of contentment, of peace, we're...

The Great Acting Blog: “Define Your Goals Precisely”

29.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 34 Comments

So many actors fail because they don't define their objectives properly. A lot of actors grumble and complain because they don't feel they have any direction, they're not going anywhere. In the end, many walk away entirely because, frankly, their lack of direction leads to...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Cycle Of Ever Greater Accomplishment”

20.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 7 Comments

The higher you set the bar, the more difficult you set the objective, the more you are activated and so the more you will accomplish. It's up to you to decide how high the bar will be set and how you prepare yourself for overcoming it....

The Great Acting Blog: “See Problems As Invitations To Learn”

14.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

Whenever undertaking some new objective, we try to assess the liklihood that we will accomplish it, we try to pre-empt pitfalls, we try to give ourselves the best chance of accomplishing it. The trouble is, the difficulties can be interpreted as no-go signs, we may...

The Great Acting Blog: “Which Road Should I Take?”

11.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

When one set of objectives has been accomplished (or not as the case may be), another set must be decided upon. This is always tricky because we are effectively signing-off the next few months or years of our life. The view however, is very different...

The Great Acting Blog: “Into The Storm”

08.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 5 Comments

If you're put off doing something because there is some aspect of it that is unpleasant to you or difficult or something that will upset your feeling of complacency, know this: accomplishing anything worthwhile is rarely nice and clean and easy. If it's worth doing,...

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