Why Artists Strive To Be Perfect – John Vorhaus

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Film Courage: What does practice mean to you?

John Vorhaus, Author/Speaker/Artist/Screenwriter: Practice to me means taking steps to do better what I want to do well.

Let’s say that I wanted to have a practice of calligraphy. I would need to take a series of steps to improve my practice of calligraphy. 

Some of these steps involve:

-Collecting materials

-Acquiring materials

-Some involve finding time or establishing time to work on my practice.

Then the next part of the practice is engaging in the activity that is calligraphy, actually doing calligraphy. 

At this point I’m thinking of it as an experiment. I’m doing an act to look at an outcome. I’m not doing an act to get a good outcome. I’m doing it as an act to look at an outcome and learn from the outcome so that I can take that learning and reinvest it in the acts that I take. This thing that we call practice is taking a series of actions leading to outcomes then learning from those outcomes in order to create new actions leading to new outcomes and leading to new learning.

If one is on the path of…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).

 

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BIO:

John Vorhaus is best known for his comedy-writing classic, The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You’re Not. He has taught and trained writers in 37 countries on five continents at last count, and created TV shows of his own in Nicaragua, Romania and elsewhere. His writing credits include dozens of teleplays and screenplays, plus seven novels and some two dozen works of non-fiction. His latest book is the little book of STANDUP. Vorhaus is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Writers Guild of America. He lives in Southern California and secretly controls the world from JohnVorhaus.com.

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