This was initially written for the Interior Sport of Appearing college students on the 1-12 months Full Time Appearing course at ACS earlier than their Improv Performances:
What a Perfectionist Is not
A perfectionist isn’t somebody who desires to get all of it proper. They’re afraid of getting issues unsuitable.
The solely cause you would want to appropriate one thing time and time once more is since you’re afraid that it’ll not fulfill or suffice as it’s.
As actors, we can’t be perfectionists. We reside in a messy artwork type. We work with mess and unpredictability. The second to second nature of distinctive efficiency requires us to embrace the spontaneous, and spontaneity has the prospect of failure constructed into it. If we work from second to second, we may fail at any time.
The Horizon
There’s a fantastic metaphor: Our journey is like crusing a ship throughout the ocean. If our aim is perfection, if we’re centered on getting one thing proper, then we’re just like the sailor who units their course for the horizon. The horizon can by no means be reached and will probably be not possible to measure progress on the way in which. You’ll lose since you can not win.
No profitable particular person turned profitable with out failing.
It is naive to assume that profitable individuals turned profitable with out failing. As if theirs was a blessed existence that includes one profitable step after one other.
Failure is only a type of suggestions. It says you haven’t obtained there but. It says that did not work, attempt one thing else.
The Reality About Failure
You WILL fail. It’s inevitable. Making an attempt to forestall your self from failing is likely one of the largest causes of failure. We change into threat averse, tight, and tense.
Accepting that failure is a part of the journey to success IS PART of the journey to success.
Are you aware who doesn’t fail?
Those who by no means totally decide to attaining within the first place.
