The Elysium Aesthetic
The Road To Elysium
Happy Monday! We’re back with Acting Class Daily and Class One of The Elysium Aesthetic - we begin each month with a Week One tone-setter. A perspective-shaper for the tools and practices we’ll be covering over the next three weeks in each of our three areas of growth: artistry, instrument and craft.
Let’s begin by looking at the elements of Earning Excellence.
Not for fleeting success, but for the muscles, the instincts, the habits, that make this type of work - living truthfully through imaginary circumstances with personal, professional pride …
To make it our constant.
The Road To Elysium.
This Month’s Focus
Class One: The Road To Elysium
Today’s Class
The Road To Elysium (Notes)
Today’s Finish Line
Knowing how to reach the finish line of Earned Excellence.
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New to our work? These four chapters of our overview are where we recommend you start: Kindred Spirits, What Is Good Acting?, Growing Excellence, The Muscles of Preparation.
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The Olympic Spirit.
We’ll use this space to recap each week’s personal crafting work - and share the discoveries and challenges of teammates within our community.
Personal Crafting Work
Dull Daily Doings
Over the span of three days capture & refine a Main List of your Dull Daily Doings (brush teeth, walk to car, open fridge, tie shoes, tap phone screen, sit on couch, turn on faucet, etc):
Day One Focus: Morning doings
Day Two Focus: Afternoon doings
Day Three Focus: Evening doings
Dull daily doings are only things that happen every single day (no exceptions!), are never reliant on others, and are done without much thought, automatically/instinctually.
Earned Excellence
Write down a specific moment in your life where you:
Embraced your baseline.
Surrendered to the process.
Accepted the twists/turns that found you.
Share your weekly discoveries & challenges and we’ll include them on Mondays. Simply hit ‘reply’ to this email. Members can share anytime on Discord and comment here on Substack:
Cabaret Elysium debuts on Friday!!!
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Put It Up On The Wall!
We had a tradition of capturing quotes on the Elysium walls. The torch has now been passed to the digital realm. We’ll use this space to highlight quotes and translate those terms we tend to throw around.
Today’s Quote
'‘A high-five through the time-space continuum!”
Glossary Gigantum
ELYSIUM; the Ancient Greek notion of paradise and the finish line of our work.
The Greeks believed that paradise was reserved for those who earned it. Happy heroes who got to spend eternity working on what they loved, with the people they loved, where they most loved working.
And that’s what we want as actors.
Being our best artistic self. Being surrounded by the best teammates. Loving the moment.
Everything we do in our training, muscle-building, and perspective-shaping builds the habits and instincts to make that level of meaningful success inevitable.
Sample the ‘stacks.
In honor of our friends at The Sample (who knew the coolest newsletters to send me … and here we are today!) each Monday I’ll highlight a Substacker that’s tickling my tastebuds:
