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Actors on Acting #6--Calling (Download Word version of #6)
© 2004 Hawk Storm
Acting is not a profession. It is a calling.--George C. Scott, The Biz Book
The following thoughts can be found in Callings by Gregg Levoy.
Sometimes we are simply called to pick up a book.
The great breakthroughs in life generally happen only as a result of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and minor
achievements.
To respond to a call is to be authentic.
I order to be authentic you have to give up something dear: a job, a house, a relationship, a belief, a lifestyle to which you have
become accustomed.
All calls lead to some sacrifice because even just one choice closes the door to another.
Every response to a call is a leap of faith since we don’t know the outcome.
How do you recognize a call?
Patience is the missing link in the discernment process.
Passion is part of our guide since it is what we are most curious about, most hungry for and what you will hate to lose in life.
Passion is whatever we pursue merely for its own sake, what we study when there are no tests to take and what we create though no
one will ever see it.
Questions to ask yourself:
How did you feel when you acted on your calling?
Did you feel more awake?
Was there a kind of rightness to your actions?
Did you experience a flood of energy?
Did you discover you had a surprising forbearance for the mundane tasks involved in the undertaking, and after a month or a year
your enthusiasm didn’t falter?
Did you feel gratitude?
When we follow a calling, we are relieved of the regrets that would have ensued if we had not done so.
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