Personal Crafting Work
Week Three: Growing Excellence
Happy Wednesday! Welcome back to Acting Class Daily. Let’s dig in to this week’s personal crafting work - adding resources, recommendations, and troubleshooting tips inspired by the discoveries and challenges of EA teammates worldwide.
Trait Work (Muscle-Builder)
We want to get great at pinpointing the muscles of forward. Those human traits, the characteristics, that set a person up for success in any given profession, in any given moment.
Write down 5 traits most important to setting a person up for success in the profession of being the leader of your country (President, Prime Minister, etc).
Modify each trait with a poetic word or phrase capturing the scenario of highest virtue (that way you imaginatively see the trait coming to life as an real strength).
Fill in the gaps by allowing the first 5 modified traits to inform 5 more - really ensuring success in this profession. 10 modified traits total.
Repeat for the professions of: an astronaut, a high school math teacher, a brain surgeon, and a hostage negotiator.
Finally, apply your developing ease at locating the muscles of success to the profession of acting, by pinpointing the 10 modified traits that power success.
BONUS MUSCLE-BUILDER: What modified trait helps a human succeed in each of the 4 stages of human learning? What about the hand-off moments in-between?
Trait Work - Professions PCW (class clip)
The 4 Stages of Human Learning (class clip)
A Human Be-ing
Let’s get to know our Acting Instrument by discovering our baseline of be-ing. Our ability to release the habitual doings of our Daily Body and simply exist in the now:
Do nothing for 10 minutes - a release of the doings of the Daily Body.
Release it all on an unapologetic sigh.
Take note of the experience by writing down the specific discoveries and challenges that showed up in the work.
Doing Nothing PCW (class clip)
Paying Members: Which discovery or challenge surprised you most when “doing nothing” for 10 minutes?
It’s time to highlight a Substacker (or two) that’s sure to tickle the tastebuds and add some spice to this week’s work:
