Blog #mindset
How to Thrive with Performance Anxiety
12 January 2021
You aren’t broken if you experience performance anxiety. Your body is simply doing what it has been conditioned to do since the beginning of time.
Fame: Quickly won, Quickly lost
20 November 2020
Fame. A complex topic, we know, but one we’re gonna attempt to tackle here regardless. As a sneaky opponent for the vast majority of our actors, this is how we start to unpack what has become such a loaded subject for so many in our field.
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An Indian Parable and the Actor's Mindset
24 October 2020
There are a great number of things outside our control as actors, but one of the things we can control is our mindset.
DEFINING THE "DOJO"
29 August 2020
We’re often asked why we’re called The Actor’s Dojo. The “actor” element being pretty self-explanatory as we solely exist to pioneer actor empowerment, but the “dojo” part sometimes raises an eyebrow.
what can actors learn
from einstein + neuroscience?
17 August 2020
Shakespeare himself said in Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Objective reality will remain objective reality, but our decision to interpret that ... is always entirely ours.
Mindset Matters Most:
Our Recommended Reading List
10 July 2020
Here, we’ve partnered with Amazon to bring you a list of our top five mindset reads.
THE ACTOR'S SANDPIT
21 May 2020
This may seem to leave us with very little within our power, but that is really the point. There’s a reason why horses are given blinkers when racing: it narrows their focus and concentration.
Your Success Is More Than Yours
27 March 2020
A person’s “success” belongs to more than just them. The achievements of the ... protagonist are only made possible with the help (whether direct or indirect) of many, many others, and similarly, their wins are also the wins of these people too.
Dealing with a bad performance
Three Lessons Actors Can Learn from Athletes
8 January 2020
Elite athletes are always training. Even in the off-season, the world’s best are still putting in the time and effort to hone their skills and craft … You can either get results or have excuses.
Bamboo: Tree of Unexpected Actor Wisdom
12 August 2019
We actors can do a pretty good job of planting the metaphorical seed (our wildest dreams and ambitions), and tending to it regularly (through training, experience and exposure), but we can also be pretty guilty of digging up the damn seed to see if it
has grown yet. Or yet. Or yet.
Defining Your Own Success As An Actor
5 June 2019
My challenge to you is to take a moment to really discern what constitutes success for you as an actor. The idea here is to ensure you are living life by your design, not by someone else’s default.
THE ENVY ADVANTAGE
29 December 2018
The thing is, that endless and draining spiral of self-pity doesn’t help, and comparisons (at least in this instance) don’t actually matter.