13198: Your Career Is Born In Public. Your Talent Is Born In Private.

Raw transcript:

ours is a lonely business whether you’re
an actor or a voice Talent or a writer
what we do is a very solitary thing and
that can really wear on us in terms of
mental health but I’ve got some advice
not from me but from two very different
very famous people and I’m going to
share it with you in this episode of the
vo Heroes podcast
so Nicola Tesla one of the most famous
scientists ever inventor of things that
we use everyday processes and so on he
once said be
alone that is the secret of invention be
alone that is when ideas are
born and that isolation is so true when
you think about you know being in the
shower by yourself how come you come up
with all these great ideas you’re by
yourself you’re isolated uh James Clear
says it’s because you’re nowhere near
screens I don’t know that that kind of
sums it all up but certainly you can’t
do anything else but think while you do
this you know sort of roote uh washing
of yourself uh switching now not from a
famous scientist but a famous actor uh
Marilyn Monroe said I restore myself
when I’m alone a career is born in
public talent in privacy and isn’t that
true for what we do when we prepare for
an audition or a submission or we
prepare to work on set or in studio or
at the keyboard we do it by ourselves
maybe sometimes we’ll do a group session
um you know if we’re acting on set we’ll
do that or if we’re in a writing Circle
we’ll we’ll do that or if we’re working
on a uh an animation with other people
in the studio sometimes that happens but
very rarely do we as artists get the
opportunity to be in a group
setting and
So to avoid the whole mental health
issue we really have to give ourselves a
carrot h a reward for being by ourselves
something that we can tell ourselves is
a positive and it’s not telling
ourselves a story this actually is a
positive when you’re isolated you can
concentrate on what you’re doing when
you don’t have the distraction of having
to deal with the social interactions of
another person or a team of people or a
group of people so the advantage is that
we can very clearly approach our work
our art our
creation from our perspective without
having to deal with everything else and
that’s a real positive it can be a real
positive certainly we get nourishment
from group settings from being in Social
settings and so on many of us are total
introverts and would much rather just be
by ourselves all the time some of us are
very gregarious some of us can’t keep
talking uh or can’t stop talking so um
yeah I I I just feel like I wanted
to make sure you knew there was an
advantage to this aloneness this privacy
that we all uh are given as artists what
do you think about this how do you
operate when you’re alone how do you
operate when you’re in a group what are
the pluses and minuses share with me in
the comments below and I mean on vooh
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sane and polite and you can sit it the
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things are available to you I’m David H
Lawrence the 17th I thank you so much
for watching and for listening and I
will see you in the next episode of the
vo Heroes podcast

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