Radio Elysium

Ep. #18: New Knowings

Aaron Ganz

Jun 9

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On Today’s Show . . .

Let’s talk about THE TYPE-CASTING MENTALITY.

Acting talent lies in what we know and how we believe.

🔥 If we don’t know what we actually know…

🔥 If we don’t have access to our unique library of empathy…

🔥 Our personal paint of humanity…

🔥 Of the things we get about this world that we use to breathe life into text on a page…

Without access to our artistic palette, without knowing our poetic lens, what we’ll be left with is …

The Type-Casting Mentality.

“I can do some things, sure … not anything, obviously.”

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We’ve lived long enough with limitation.

We’ve lived long enough with internalizing what isn’t possible, what we can’t do.

We’ve lived long enough with doubt and disbelief ringing inside us.

What you know is a super-power, a professional separator, because it’s only yours.

It’s so huge. It’s so powerful. And it is so important.

So let’s push back.

Let’s get to work knowing our talent, growing our talent, accessing and applying our talent.

Creating the echo inside you always:

I can do anything. Go on, try me.

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… Setting yourself up for success, that's what we're after.
We're after this rehearsal bargain: “Let me live now and I'll learn later.”
And who are we making that bargain with but yourself?
Your intellect.
The part of you that wants to watch and judge and guard and do all the stuff (of) the Daily Body guards and filters.
You're making a negotiation with yourself.
How do we talk to ourselves? How do you convince yourself? How do you convince yourself to just let go for every audition, for every rehearsal …
How do you convince you … yourself … to do that?
The surest way is to be there for yourself.
One lets go when they know there's something there to catch them …
(Episode Moment Begins @ 32:30)