Let’s say you wished to design and build an amazing building. Just having the skill and talent needed to design it isn’t enough. You also need to create the plan and blueprints so the steps needed to build it are clear and in the right order. But even those two things aren’t enough. You also need the tools and supplies needed to construct the building, and the skilled craftsmen and women to carry out the construction.
All four of those elements: skill, strategy, tools, and community, are essential to doing it at all, let alone doing it right. And even having all those elements working together in perfect harmony doesn’t guarantee everything will go smoothly or work out. We still have to contend with life’s challenges.
It’s no different for actors.
And yet, you and I both know people whose whole plan can be boiled down to this: “I think I’m talented. I just need to be discovered and meet the right industry person who’ll believe in me, and give me a chance, and I’ll finally be on my way to being the star I was born to be.”
We’re surrounded by people who want, hope for, or worse, feel entitled to success without having to work for it. Many of them
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