13161: Do You Insist On Avoiding Repeat Performances?

Raw transcript:

I have an incredible amount of
compassion for
artists and I have this compassion for
in some cases very predictable reasons
but in in this one particular case for a
very odd reason and I’m going to share
that with you because I suffer from it
myself the the brick wall that we face
as artists when it comes to improving
our lot in life stand by I’m also going
to give you a strategy on how to take
care of that in this episode of the vo
Heroes
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podcast one of the things that I’ve
noticed about artists um whether they’re
performers whether they’re fine artists
whether they’re writers whether they’re
voice Talent on camera people uh
Artisans old world Artisans handcrafting
items um the one thing that I’ve noticed
is that nine times out of
10 they resist the notion of repeating
something that they have accomplished in
the past if they’ve done a part a
certain way on stage they look for ways
to change that up to do things a little
bit different to try and explore new
things and I get why because you never
know what kind of lovely magic is going
to be
revealed when you try something a little
bit new uh or if they’re drawing
something uh they want to draw it
differently than they did before now
there are some people who repeat things
over and over and over and over again um
they have a style they have a
technique um but for the most part
artists try to find that different
drummer in the world of self-improvement
in the world of increasing your
efficiency or increasing your
Effectiveness uh when you’re setting up
your business in the world of of
Performing or the technology in the
world of
Performing that can kind of work against
you because once you find something that
works instead of repeating that instead
of the lather rinse repeat thing that
could be very successful you go huh how
can I make this different how can I do
these things differently what can I do
to be an
artist and that can work against you
when what you’re trying to do
is to make processes and procedures that
are sort of business-based office-based
mechanical based not necessarily in the
creative uh area to make them reliable
to make them fun to make them easy to
make them you know you got it right
there you know right what you’re doing
so I get that those two things can be
diametrically opposed to each other and
can prevent you from recognizing when
you you’ve achieved
success okay this works but and what I
urge you to think when you’re presented
with a situation where something
actually
works is to notice that to even say it
out loud if you need to well that
worked I find myself saying that all the
time you know I’ll do something on the
computer or I’ll do something on the
camera on the microphone and I’ll say oh
that worked and it’s kind of a a an oral
clue that I can rely on that I can do
that again I can I can use that as
something that will serve me over time
that I don’t have to keep trying to
change now does this mean you should
abandon all uh hope of of uh of
improving your lot in life by by
changing things up no but once you find
something that works for
you give it credit give yourself credit
notice it and don’t jump to the
conclusion that you have to be an artist
about everything in your life sometimes
you just have to be uh an Executor right
you just have to be someone who does
this to get to the point where you can
play where you can be that artist and
and you have accomplished a business
technique or a mechanical technique that
allows you to then explore the art in
your life I’m wondering if this makes
sense to you because even as I’m saying
it out loud I realize that you could be
like well how do I know the difference
David between that and you know I get it
I get it all I want you to do is give
yourself credit I think we as artists
often don’t do that we’re we’re
constantly beating ourselves up about
not achieving what we need to achieve
especially when we’re
not yet at a point where we feel like
we’re
successful and a lot of my students and
clients feel that way and so that’s
that’s really who I’m talking to here
and that is not only people who are
pursuing their Journey but people who
are well along in their journey and want
to do more things different things so uh
again notice it say it out loud well
that worked and uh and give yourself
credit you know you you don’t have to
march to that Different Drummer with
100% of the things that you
pursue if you’ve got something you want
to say about this please do so in the
comments Below on vooh heroes.com
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that and forward it to an artist that
you think might need to hear this like
they’re constantly grinding their wheels
trying new and different things because
they don’t want to repeat what they’ve
done in the past or what other people
have done 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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