A frog sits on a lily pad in the middle of a pond. Wanting to reach the shore, he jumps exactly halfway, landing on another lily pad. He then jumps half of that remaining distance. Then half again, and so on.
How many times must he jump before he gets where he’s going?
You might say two. Or five. Or “It depends on the length of the frog’s legs relative to the distance he has to travel overall.” Either way, you’d be wrong. Since the frog is never jumping the full distance, he could jump an infinite number of times and still never make it to the shore because he’s always jumping only half the distance required to reach his goal.
Does this frog’s plight sound like the acting career of anyone you know?
If you feel like you are pouring all your time, money and energy into classes, workshops, headshot sessions, demo reels and seminars, but aren’t really getting to where you want to be, you may be doing them all in half measures.
When you attend classes, do you dedicate yourself to every exercise 100 percent, or do you wait to get up third (or worse, last) and hope the night isn’t too taxing? Do you attend networking events and industry nights with legitimately seeking to find out about the people
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