Make Yourself Feel Better
There are a number of ways to make yourself feel better about yourself and the work that you do. One of the simplest is a method used a great deal in the entertainment industry is to knock the other guy. I mean if you see someone performing you can easily slag off their performance and by doing that you will lift yourself above what they have done and hence you feel better. Even more impressive is to criticise their performance and then build yourself up as the expert by stating how you would have done it differently. That will increase the gap between you and them – you’ll look really good then. Just go on YouTube and look at the comments that people leave – very often it just condemns or insults the person who has posted and that can only have the effect of making the individual who left the comment feeling powerful. Maybe the tone of the comment can suggest that you are the expert, slightly patronising, all knowing. Yeah that’s the way. I do it, you do it. The reality is that unless your comment is going to improve the performance or help then you should probably shut up! Oh and if you are “the expert” lift people up to your level, don’t cling on to your knowledge, share it and share it freely. Anyone who is putting themselves in the line of fire deserves a degree of respect and isn’t necessarily a sitting duck for ridicule, you don’t become the smartest person in the class by throwing stones at the poor sod whose struggling, especially in the glasshouse that we’re in. There’s merit it pretty much every sincere attempt to deliver a performance regardless of the end result.
Alternatively you could just focus on making yourself a better performer than you are at the moment and forget about where that puts you in the grand scheme of things. You could look forward and towards those people who have something to teach you and stop looking back at the ones you feel a degree of superiority over waiting for an opportunity to stick the boot in. You can stand on the shoulders of giants because they have shoulders broad enough but if you stand on the weak you will more than likely crush them and the problem with that is that you will be at the same height you were when you started, and you’ll have all kinds of shit on your boots.
Like I said, I’ve done it more than once and it’s never made me a better performer. So if I’ve ever slagged you off, ridiculed your performance or knocked you when you were down – I apologise. I’m no expert but if I can help make you a better performer then I will. All you have to do is ask.
Soy español, no hablo inglés. Lo siento. Le vi actuar en Cáceres, con mi hermana Pilar, le hizo un truco con 20 euros y un limón. Le pedimos foto y firma, y fue muy amable.
Es usted mágico. Gracias.