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hey guys it's david and this is from module one, getting to know yourself...and guys this
is probably the most important thing you need to think about not only now but throughout
your career and throughout your life, and that is the whole concept of getting to know
yourself. what you need to really know about yourself
is are you an excuse maker? it's very easy to get what you want in life. You know why
it's so easy is because so few people are really doing it. so few people are really
going after what they want in life. most people just go after what they think they want in
life because they've been told by someone else what they should be doing with their
lives. whether that's keepin their family happy, keeping up with the joneses, the people
next door, if they get married, keeping thier new family happy, meaning their wife husband
children etc. so it's very easy to get caught up in doing stuff that you think you want
to do but really you know deep down you don't want to do. so when it comes to going after
what you want, basically you need to live your life like Judge Judy. Judge Judy is the
perfect example of how to live your life. the way she deals with people in the courtroom
is the way you need to deal with yourself in your acting career, and your life. so if
you have watched any judge judy episodes, she has interviews with the plaintiff and
the defendant and as soon as she asks a question and the answer is not yes or no or a direct
explanation when the person starts making excuses, yeah but something something that's
where she cuts them off and saying that has nothing to do with what i just asked you.
and that's the question you need to ask yourself is are you not getting what you are trying
to achieve if you're not achieving those things is it because you are making excuses for yourself
and trust me guys, I am the king of all of these things i bring up to you so please don't
make it sound like i'm judging or condescending because trust me, a lot of the reasons i come
up with these talks and this content is because it is things i do in my own life that I recognize
and then understand and need to change and sometimes i don't change them because, whatever,
maybe I'm weak, but if you aren't somebody who's as self-conscious as maybe as I am then
maybe you need somebody like me to bring these things up and just listen to yourself when
you are having a conversation like have a conversation right now and say is my acting
career going the way I want it to be and if your career is not going the way you want
it to be, if it's not at the pace that you thought it would be at, if you haven't set
goals yet, if you don't have a plan, if there's anything, any delay in getting to where you
want to go based on the plan that we've set out, ask yourself why that is and just be
honest with yourself and see what answers come back because a lot of people will say,
well i didn't do any personality testing yet because i was really busy with whatever it
is...whatever your excuses are and lets say that everythign is an excuse ostensibly, most
things in life we do have control over, so ask yourself what is the reason you didn't
do something and if the reason is you weren't hit by a tidal wave or a tsunami or an earthquake
or a tornado or some other act of god, then ask yourself why are you doing that to yourself.
most of the time it's probably that you're scared to find out if you're going to succeed
or fail. But trust me if you just allow yourself to succeed, then you will succeed because
you don't have to have an undue amount of talent to be an actor, you just have to be
willing to do it...