07.22.08
What we learned
Yesterday we said goodbye to our voice-over teacher as our class finished. During our class times, we learned not only how to speak, but also how to read, listen, breathe, relax, and–flow.
Flow means those moments in life when everything goes along smoothly. Those are the times when we had no expectations. There were no ’should’’s and no requirements of us or of other people. We just acted in the moment because we enjoyed what we were doing, and the people we were with.
It’s kind of like comedy: If we don’t think about the outcome of a ‘joke’, but only about the desire to communicate a funny idea, then it usually kills. It gets laughs. When people know that we aren’t fishing for laughter, so they give it to us freely.
We also learned to not punish ourselves for the mistakes we make on the way to our goal. When we chastize ourselves, we ruin the enjoyment for other people. That is sort of selfish, our teacher Amy Hartman told us. What a concept! If we envelope ourselves in perfection and in expectations, we not only limit our enjoyment of the task, but we ruin it for others, too. Maybe they would have had a good laugh at our ideas.
We shouldn’t focus on perfection, we should only focus on the RELATING.
