This was initially written for the Interior Sport of Appearing college students on the 1-Yr 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 mistaken.

The solely purpose you would wish to appropriate one thing time and time once more is since you’re afraid that it’s going to not fulfill or suffice as it’s.

As actors, we can’t be perfectionists. We reside in a messy artwork kind. 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 might fail at any time.

The Horizon

There’s an ideal metaphor: Our journey is like crusing a ship throughout the ocean. If our objective 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 it is going to be inconceivable to measure progress on the best way. You’ll lose since you can not win.

No profitable particular person turned profitable with out failing.

It is naive to assume that profitable folks 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 acquired 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 without doubt one of the greatest causes of failure. We turn into danger 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?

People who by no means absolutely decide to attaining within the first place.