The Great Acting Blog: “Choose To Love Your Work”
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 progress we’ve made by tending to those things that are within our control, gives us a lift, it gives us confidence and self-respect.
Improvement feeds off itself.
This is certainly true of acting. The best actors simply love to act and they love to get better and better at it as an end in itself, not only to serve their career goals. This love of acting, this love of the work, is transmitted during performances too. It’s obvious which actors are having a good time and which are not. It’s the same with people in sport, or in life generally.
Perhaps then, we can say that those who stagnate, who lack the motivation to improve, see it all as a bit of a drag. Certainly they lack the flourish, creativity and intensity which emanates from those who love what they do.
Loving what you do however, is a choice, it’s something that can be cultivated. It’s a question of finding the right mindset, of choosing to see your work in a certain way.
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