Rounding Yourself Out: Good Idea, Or Not So Much?

well hey there hero it’s David H
Lawrence the seventeenth and today I
want to talk to you about the concept of
rounding yourself out this to me was a
revelation when it was presented to me a
few years ago because I’d always been
kind of raised with the idea that as you
grow older you should expand your
abilities you should expand the breadth
and the depth of your abilities and you
should get better and better at many
things and it’s an admirable situation
to be tech savvy and know foreign
languages and be handy around the house
but then just Italian with what I said
the other day about about Betsy it was
presented to me that it is better to
maximize your strengths then try to
raise all of the things that you may not
be so good at to the level where you’re
excellent at them trying to again round
yourself out it’s always better to play
to your strengths and so my question to
you is do you play to your strengths we
touched on this briefly in the video
about strengths finders but it’s a
concept that is hard especially for
performers because again we’re often
presented with the idea that you should
be versatile you should be agile you
should be able to play yourself you
should be able to play yourself as a
younger person you should be able to
play a different race and a different
age group you should be able to play a
children a child you know you should be
able to play all these things and you
should be able to say yes whenever
somebody says hey can you do this sure I
can do that four-year-old asian boy girl
of course I can do you know you can’t do
everything and when given the choice
between taking advantage of what you
really good at taking advantage of what
you’re strong at and really keeping that
polished and keeping that up to up to
world-class standards and not
necessarily paying attention to the
things that you know you’re not all that
good at and you’re not all that
interested in but there’s that nagging
voice behind you that saying hey you
know round yourself out so my advice and
it’s advice that was given to me by
Betsy and by others is concentrate on
the things that you’re really awesome at
you know occasionally you know and I do
this all the time just to keep it
interesting I push outside my comfort
zone and I look at things and sometimes
you discover that you really love
something that you didn’t think you
would or you’re really very good at
something that you weren’t possibly
going to be good at at all right but for
the most part when you figure out
something isn’t in your wheelhouse it’s
a good idea to say okay I’m gonna put my
attention on the things that are does
that make sense to you does that help I
wonder if that goes against the grain of
what you’ve been taught as you developed
your career as a performer or whatever
you do if you’re an attorney or a
dentist or I don’t know let me know in
the comments below would you I’d love to
know if that’s something that that makes
sense to you and that is something
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you I’m David H Lawrence 17th I thank
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