115. Deliberate Practice: The Key to Improving Your Acting Skills

In this episode, Head of Actor Relations explains the concept of deliberate practice and how it can be applied to acting. Deliberate practice involves setting goals, identifying areas of improvement, and actively seeking feedback to continuously improve in your craft. It is a key tool in stepping outside of your comfort zone, becoming unafraid of failure, and surrounding yourself with a community you can be motivated from and learn with. Taylor also explains how deliberate practice, not natural talent, is the key to becoming an expert in your art.

— Deliberate Practice vs. Purposeful Practice

— Learning New Skills

— Quality over Quantity

— Why A-Listers Excel

— Showing Up for Yourself

— Mental Representations as Repeatable Patterns

— Incorporating new Techniques

— Feedback & Unbiased Self-Reflection

— Practicing as You Perform

— The Myth of Natural Talent

Episode Resources:

• Writer's Strike Info
• "Peak" by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
• "Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else" by Geoff Colvin
• Learning Lots with Brie Larson and Jessie Ennis
• Castability 102: "Getting in the Right Mindset for your Castability Reports and Overcoming Perfectionism with Mindset Coach Joe Towne"
• Castability 108: "The New Triple Threat's Alyshia Ochse and Anna LaMadrid on Self Tapes, Being "Director-Proof", and the Validation Loop"

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