As I was reading and writing I had Tony Bennett playing in the background, and as the songs played my brain picked up lyrics that were relevant to this chapter. *Oh you clever brain, you!* 💁🏻 "When is it my chance?...When is it my dance?"...Who can I turn to?"..."It had to be you." What can I say, Tony Bennett lyrics for days. 😊 A bajillion times. That is the number of times I re-read this chapter. So many good points, I wanted to include every single last one. So much so, I just could not get to finishing this post! I took a step back and restructured the entire entry around one concept, the Clooney perspective. "George Clooney spent his first years in Hollywood getting rejected at auditions. He wanted the producers and directors to like him, but they didn't and it hurt and he blamed the system for not seeing how good he was...Everything changed for Clooney when he tried a new perspective. He realized that casting is an obstacle for producers, too-- they need to find somebody, and they're all hoping that the next person to walk in the room is the right somebody. Auditions were a chance to solve their problem, not his. From Clooney's new perspective, he was that solution. He wasn't going to be someone groveling for a shot. He was someone special to offer. He was the answer to their prayers, not the other way around. That was what he began projecting in his auditions-- not exclusively his acting skills but that he was the man for the job. That he understood what the casting director and producers were looking for in a specific role and that he would deliver it in each and every situation, in preproduction, on camera, and during promotion" (Holiday, 2014, p.38-39). As you may have realized after reading that tidbit, the Clooney perspective translates to the idea that you are the solution. Seth Godin's idea of "reject the tyranny of being picked" is also very similar to that of the Clooney perspective. In essence Godin's idea boils down to the fact that you have to pick yourself. No one is going to pick you, so you must. In the words of my uncle "Where the head goes, the body follows", said in the midst of teaching me jiu jitsu self-defense moves. This is both literally and figuratively true. So fill your head with good things, and you'll by consequence produce good things. =) "Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant."
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