The reason we often don’t experience greater moments of inspiration and creativity in our own work is that we quit at the “frustration” phase, not knowing that this stage is an important part of our creative development.
Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop
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How To Make Your Inner Journey Inform the Outer
For many of us, we’ve never been taught to identify with an inner journey. So we seek continuously outwardly. Partly this is due to our living in a culture that only measures results by the things we achieve and the amount of money we make.
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Push Through Your Fear Like an A-Lister
Like everything in acting, the things we most need to develop are the areas that have their own corresponding equivalent in our own personal lives.
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Why 'No' Really Means 'Yes' In Your Acting Career
Hearing “No” isn’t really that big a deal. But when we associate it with incorrect interpretations in our left hemisphere – we make them mean, “I’m talentless.” “It’s never going to happen for me.” “I suck.” And then we immediately let the “No’s” defeat us.
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Admitting What You Want Is the First Step to Success
When you’re asked a question, and your response is, “I don't know," wait for the second answer. It’s the true answer that you don’t want to say out loud.
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Stop Telling Yourself Lies About Your Career!
If only we could stop telling stories that contradicted our hearts, who would we be? Amazing Adventurers. Dynamic Doers. Beautiful Bad-Asses. Courageous Creators. But it’s hard because we’re invested in our stories.
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Why You Need to Face Your Fears
The fears in our heads are always louder and bigger than the actual experience of them in reality. In fact, once we face the things we are most scared of, we realize that they actually aren’t that scary at all.
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Why You Shouldn't Assume Anything As an Actor
Assumptions often get us into trouble because they generally stem from our fixed conditioned mind patterns that assume things incorrectly based on our paradigms of doubt, fear, and cynicism.
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Open Your Eyes To The Possibility In Your Life
No one is putting limits on you. No one sees you as limited, except yourself. You could argue that out in the world you’re constantly being met with people trying to limit you.
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Stop Waiting and Live Your Life Now
Stop waiting for things to get better or easier or less busy. Stop saying that you need to wait to be better prepared or more secure or more certain of yourself.
