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Today's Stage 32 Blog comes from Producer and Screenwriter Renée Brack, based in Sydney, Australi
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Today's Stage 32 Blog comes from Producer and Screenwriter Renée Brack, based in Sydney, Australia. At age 17, my artist-father was taught a mantra. âNear enough isnât good enough. It has to be perfect.â So he hustled for his mentor, re-doing work over and over again until one day, the mentor was moved to tears and whispered; ânow itâs perfect. And thatâs near enough.â But the damage was done. With over 60 years of painting, dad couldnât bring himself to have an exhibition. Nothing was perfect. It robbed him of so much joy and satisfaction and held him back from moving forward in life. I inherited my dadâs perfectionism. Itâs a fear of disapproval or failure so one never quite finishes or feels satisfied with the results. It taught me how to hang on which is great for commitment but then I had to learn how to let go. As a filmmaker and a scriptwriter, perfectionism can make a person unpleasant to work with, creatively crushing colleagues in a crew and making someone unreliable when it comes to deadlines. The best training I had to learn to meet deadlines and transcend perfectionism was as a young print journalist and then as a TV news reporter. I learned the meaning of âdeadlineâ. Itâs a line you canât cross or youâre dead. If perfectionism is plaguing your creative process, ask yourself questions such as: Is the 51st shade of grey more perfect than the previous 50? Will tinkering with this one detail makes an important difference to the audience's understanding and loving your screen story more? If the answer is no â let it go. Perfectionism is defined as the ârefusal to accept any standard short of perfectâ. It disguises itself as your best friend with the utmost professional integrity but instead, it gaslights you by adding anxiety and fostering obsession. Perfection is a subjective interpretation and an ideal. Itâs great to imagine and strive for it but 2 other skills are more achievable and not based on talent. Theyâre choices and decisions we make about who we are and how we work... [Keep Reading Here]( Copyright © 2023 Stage 32, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have an account or have participated in services at Stage32.com. We have some cool things happening on social â follow us!
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