13246: Hat, Haircut Or Tattoo?

Raw transcript:

Every decision we make in life is
different and it’s kind of hard because
they all have various unique attributes
to them. But I’ve been able to kind of
winnow them down to three different
categories. And I saw a way that lined
up with that recently on the web that I
wanted to share with you. And it has to
do with our heads and our bodies when it
comes to decision. I’ll share it with
you in just a second. in this episode of
the VO Heroes podcast.
So, when we make decisions about things,
big decisions, small decisions, uh
medium-sized decisions, it it it it
doesn’t really matter in terms of their
size. It matters in terms of their
permanence.
That’s what I’m rapidly coming to the
conclusion of. And yeah, we make big
decisions, small decisions, decisions in
between, but it’s the import of those
decisions. It’s the effectiveness of
those decisions. It’s the it’s the
results of those decisions, the outcomes
of those decisions, but it’s about the
permanence of it. And um I recently saw
on the web a way one guy kind of
positions these. He says we have three
different kinds of of decisions. We have
decisions that are like hats. We have
decisions that are like haircuts and we
have decisions that are like tattoos.
And I was like, “Oh, you’ve got my
attention, Mr. Man. I don’t know who you
are, but yes, let let me let me
immediately sign on to that.” You know,
we make decisions. We go, “Yeah, maybe
this will work. Maybe it won’t work.” We
put on a hat. We like how that looks in
the mirror. Yeah. Take it off. Put
another one on. Yeah. Okay. make a
different decision about something
minor, something that doesn’t have a lot
of uh multiple secondary and tertiary uh
results. It’s a hat. We try the hat on.
We see if it fits and maybe it becomes
something that gains importance or gains
more results because we like the way
that hat looks on our head. So hats and
then we have haircuts.
You know, if we make a decision about a
haircut, you can’t really correct that
decision where you can with a hat. It
doesn’t work, take it off, put another
one on. Can’t do that with a haircut, at
least for a while. Now, personally, I
don’t ever worry about haircuts. I don’t
have any hair to cut. But for those of
you that do,
uh, you know, you make a decision and
you live with it for a while and you
have to live with it for a while. And
then there’s the third level and that is
a decision that when you make it, it’s
kind of permanent
or it’s semi-permanent and it takes a
lot of effort to make it not so
permanent. And that’s when you decide on
a tattoo. Uh a kind of decision that has
a lot of results wrapped around it, a
lot of secondary results, maybe even
more. Uh a lot of work goes into that
decision. And note that we often spend
much more time on those more important
decisions. And we can get locked up if
we spend the same amount of time
deciding between a hat, a haircut, and a
tattoo. Like if you stand there at the
uh the rack at your front door and you
just can’t decide which one of those
hats to put on, that can be an issue. Um
I wonder if this makes sense for you. I
wonder if this, you know, uh has a has
any resonance with you in terms of the
level of decision making that you do in
your personal life, in your professional
life, uh with friends, with family, with
uh actions that you want to take, with
your auditions, with your writing, with
your acting, you know, the decisions
that we make in terms of the roles that
we uh create and that we we pursue. Let
me know in the comments below because
I’d like to know what you think about
this and if this makes sense to you. If
all of a sudden now you have a system
for your auditions and how they work.
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hearing. I’m David H. Lawrence the 17th.
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