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Philip Banks Je Ne Sais Quoi
Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 11049 Location: Portgordon, Scotland
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:45 am Post subject: Robustness! |
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If you want to learn a martial art or to Box you are first taught how to fall, how to take a punch and how to defend yourself. If you fly then you are expected to spent countless hours learning how NOT to crash by doing "Crashing" practice. You are building muscle memory and robustness. You are enabling yourself to do something without thinking so that your conscious brain function is released from the mundane to concentrate on the important.
Personally, professionally, privately and publicly you will repeatedly crash, you will often be thrown or punched. In life as in work you need to be robust.
The following video is both deeply moving and the other thing it is also too as well.
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Bish 3.5 kHz
Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Posts: 3738 Location: Lost in the cultural wasteland of Long Island
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Well said.
One of the most empowering things I ever learnt was being able to say, "It doesn't matter" and to really believe it. It's not just putting on a brave face and being all stoic about it ... it's truly believing that something really doesn't matter. An engine falling off and the aircraft plunging uncontrollably towards an unscheduled meeting with the ground matters. The fact that your co-pilot has an annoying whistle, doesn't. _________________ Bish a.k.a. Bish
Smoke me a kipper... I'll be back for breakfast.
I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls. |
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todd ellis A Zillion
Joined: 02 Jan 2007 Posts: 10498 Location: little egypt
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 7:29 am Post subject: |
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_________________ "i know philip banks": todd ellis
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scottnilsen King's Row
Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 1170 Location: Orange County, CA
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 11:19 am Post subject: |
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I love that, Todd _________________ We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Well, that and mimes.
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Philip Banks Je Ne Sais Quoi
Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 11049 Location: Portgordon, Scotland
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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I'll drink to that! |
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Karyn OBryant Cinquecento
Joined: 23 Jul 2013 Posts: 561 Location: Portlandia-adjacent
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:05 am Post subject: |
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Well put, Philip.
That's the sticking point, isn't it: it's not personal. That's the hardest thing for people to really internalize. It takes a while to be able to readjust the default response to "let it go and move on."
It also helped, back in the old days when I was doing on-camera work, to imagine my arch-nemesis as "that short, fat Asian lady." In my mind, she got all the gigs I auditioned for, but didn't get. It was soothing to imagine that it wasn't personal -- my audition was just fine (brilliant, in fact) ... it's just that I was neither short nor fat nor Asian, and that's the specs the client ended up going with. I know, it's weird and probably very racist. But it truly did help my 20-something-year-old self to learn to be robust; to do my work, and let it go.
I still don't like that lady. _________________ * * * * * * * * * *
Pretending to be other people since 1986.
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Tre M. Backstage Pass
Joined: 01 Nov 2017 Posts: 489 Location: Vegas, the desert part.
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