Command Performance

[lilmissnever]

I am not one of the world's great self-promoters. This is not the result of any kind of natural modesty - I think I am quite wonderful - so much as a conviction that if you are doing things right, you do not have to self-promote because people will recite your achievements in awed whispers as you walk by. That is why I didn't tell that many people

Comments

[mooflyfoof]

I'm a knitter AND an aerialist! Well, sort of. More like, I used to do aerials once a week. I wouldn't say I was even BAD at it. Yay, I can climb to the top, and maybe have enough strength to do one star drop, as long as someone is talking me through it! Woo, I can do a double foot key and have them come out evenly! I never did get the hang of hip key before I stopped going last spring, though. Dammit. I should start back up again. Maybe eventually I'll be able to do more than one move before coming down. Maybe eventually I'll have some sort of grace and flexibility.

"Maybe this is how it happens: you fool a few people, then you fool a few more, until finally when you get up on stage most of the audience believes."

I think this is pretty spot-on.

[mooflyfoof]

I absolutely agree with that statement, It goes right along with my "Act-as-if" philosophy.

Act as if you're in control and everyone will assume you are.

[netik]

I absolutely agree with that statement, It goes right along with my "Act-as-if" philosophy.

Act as if you're in control and everyone will assume you are.

[m4dh4tt3r]

one of the primary tenets of social engineering. :-)

[m4dh4tt3r]

Congratulations! It sounds like you did great. :-)

Not that you would have told me, but it would have been nice to see your performance.

[lilmissnever]

I was worse than I'd hoped I would be, but better than I'd feared. I think that the key to continued improvement is a good, healthy sense of fear and shame.

[m4dh4tt3r]

How very Russian of you. :-P

Keep at it. You seem to enjoy it a lot.

[elusis]

I agree with that completely. Being recruited to perform in a show about five months after starting to study ATS certainly put the fear of public humiliation into me, and forced me to practice hard! I'm highly motivated by the possibility of looking dumb.

[theaggregator]

I was there! but i was late AND YOU WERE GREAT! even though i heard it from others
So DON'T WORRY!

[ilcylic]

I think you're quite wonderful, too. :D

[perligata]

Man, I have performance anxiety even when I post a friends-locked LJ entry, so when I say that what you do is impressive, I mean it in more than a purely mechanical sense.