then big and brilliant
I'm battling just to keep up in the ballet class I began last week. Thrown to the wolves is essential for learning, though, and helps teach more than just the skill at hand.
I'm overly self-conscious, and shrink when doing something at which I'm inept. I tighten into a little ball (physically and meta-) and chant disappearance incantations.
Don't want to show it until I've got it...
But teacher wouldn't have it.
Be big, she directed me:
Be big and bad,
then big and better,
then big and brilliant.
Why rehearse shyness while waiting on precision?
It's something I know about and have writ-intended before, but reminders with different twists keep trickling in. Jenita suggests: be generous (the performance isn't for or about you.) Hope@SAFMOD harps on practicing to perform (because you'll perform the way you've practiced.) Paul Buchheit recently wrote: "Perfect" is the enemy of "good enough" (and "Good enough" is the enemy of "At all"!)
You have length in those arms, she said.
Use it.
Make me jealous of it.
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I like what Buchheit wrote. His thinking is in line with why I don't get bored (always something to do/create). He makes me feel better about my crappy diy con(de)struction, my poor photography skills and my lack of tech savvy.
-- Jenita (May 9, 2007 11:31 PM)