Do You Really Want Success as An Actor?

What is success? it may be one thing to me and another to you. As a photographer I may think of a big exhibition or a coffee table book as success. A statement that I've arrived. On the other hand somebody else might well judge their success as earning a good steady living - being able to provide a decent standard of life for your family. As an actor it may be London's West End.

To be really successful how hard do we need to work and how hard do we need to push ourselves?

Well, Malcom Gladwell in his book Outliers says this "Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder."

Another well know motivational speaker Tony Robbins says this about success. "If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results".

Tony Robbins also said this,"In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently".

What's clear in all of those statements is the need to work harder than anybody and everybody else. I also take it that we need to consistently work hard, it's difficult when it feels as though you are constantly banging your head against a brick wall. When you can see no light at the end of the tunnel and your spirit begins to drop.Robbins also says "success leaves clues.”

We need to find the people that are the best at what they do, who are successful in the field we want to be in. We must use them as reference examples.  Work backwards from success to save time figuring it out from scratch.  Use the mistakes they made to to avoid the same ones. Model them to help find the short-cuts and the proven paths these people have used.

Gladwell says " to achieve mastery in anything....roughly takes 10,00o hours" Cuy this time dramatically by finding a mentor.

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Publish Date: 02/12/2010 12:48

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Publish Date: 01/29/2010 15:50

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