Sharon Lee on designing your own success – fantastic Creative Mornings talk and a fine addition to this omnibus of advice on how to find your purpose and do what you love.
please watch this and don’t click “like”, click “reblog”.
I’m excited that this video has been reblogged over 2,000 times, and I’m really bummed that only 3 of my actual friends have reblogged it. Maybe it’s because I posted it late last night, so I’m putting it out there again.
I’m talking specifically to my friends and the people who follow me that haven’t reblogged this. Please watch. It’s important. Don’t just hit “like”. Pass it on. I’ll get back to posting my usual stupid, goofy pics and videos later, but for now, this is more important.
and for those of you who have watched and passed it on, thank you!
Jokes later.
The comedy scene in New York loses people to LA all the time, and the number of people heading west seems to be going up by the month. Richard Morgan talked to a slew of comedy people on both coasts about making the move, the pros and cons of heading to Los Angeles, and the effect of the high turnover rate on the NYC comedy scene. Click here for the roundtable.
Interviewees include: Matt Besser, Donald Glover, Lennon Parham, Ben Schwartz, Anthony King, Jason Mantzoukas, Nick Kroll, Eugene Mirman, Anthony Atamanuik, Streeter Seidell, Eliza Skinner, Joe Mande, Gil Ozeri, DC Pierson, and Chris Gethard.
A taste:
MATT BESSER, a founding member of The Upright Citizens Brigade: I was the first of the UCB Four to move out here, in like 2000 or 2001. It was miserable. MIS-ER-A-BLE.
JASON MANTZOUKAS, of The League, Children’s Hospital and upcoming Sacha Baron Cohen project The Dictator: I’d be in LA and people used to say ‘Oh, UCB? Like the University of California at Berkeley?’
BESSER: In a lot of ways it was like starting over. Beyond being frustrating it was humiliating. I remember walking into some tiny coffee shop on a Monday night for an open mic and I said, ‘Hi, I just moved to town and I’m a comedian.’ And this woman who ran it said ‘Yeah, I know you. I recognize you from your show.’ And I said I’d like to perform at the open mic and she said, ‘Sure, just send me a tape and I’ll look it over and let you know.’ I should’ve thrown coffee on her right there. So, no, I didn’t perform there that night. Fuck no. But I performed in lots of places like that, just as bad or worse.
MANTZOUKAS: It’s Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours. We came in and put up shows constantly. I remember I played Ricky Martin for a year — for a year! — in a show every Saturday night. It was a horrible show. I look back and, really, it’s embarrassing. But we were doing it.
Hey, here is a discussion that reflects what goes through my head every single day.
(Source: splitsider.com)
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On your birthday this year you should take a few minutes to write a song with lyrics all about yourself and everything that’s going on in your life at that exact moment. Your girlfriend, your parents, your apartment, your thoughts on the…
I always wondered why i felt so connected with abed, then he said this and it all made sense
I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who’s half a man,
Or the man who’s half a boy.
When I get sad I just quit being sad and be awesome instead.
2. The Vacation Idea
There is a reason that everyone likes vacations. They are a time to get away from your normal life. While you are on vacation you are a completely different person. The stress just peels away and you are a totally relaxed person. But vacations end… and we go back home and though ‘vacation you’ sticks around for a bit, that quickly leaves and you’re back to normal, stressed-out you.
Why is this?
Maybe you went and talked to that random group of people on the beach because you thought, “Why not? I’ll never see them again!” And those random people became your best friends for the next week. People that you will think about for the rest of your life because they remind you of that awesome week.
Maybe you were walking down the street one evening when you decided that you were hungry. You quickly ducked into the nearest little diner and discovered the best “blank” you have ever had. And the waiter told jokes, and a band started playing your favorite song on violin, and it was an over-all unforgettable night. Now when you hear that song you think of that crazy band and that awesome meal and that great night.
Then we go home. We go back to being our normal non-impulsive self. We decide not to talk to that random person in the line behind us. That random person that you know that you’ll never see again - but it’s different cause your in your home town. We decide to not go to that random diner that you saw when you were hungry. You go to the normal restaurant you always go to - because its what you do.
This is where the Vacation Idea comes in. Why not take on the mentallity that you have when your on vacation? The “Why not? I’ll never see them again!” attitude. Personally i know that the random places i’ve been and the random people i’ve talked to on short vacations have impacted me more than most of the people i interact with on a daily basis.
Take a day where you don’t have a lot going on and go somewhere you have never been in your town. Duck into that random diner you always have seen but never go to. Talk to that random person behind you in line - you probably won’t see them again anyways. Act like your on vacation! Be a tourist!
Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and i’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals, and i’ll give you a stock clerk.
Inspired on the Internet
Once again i have been inspired on the internet. This resulted in me spending hours reading random posts instead of studying or working on projects. On the plus side though, i feel great!
rulesformyunbornson.net
the awesome tumblr or the guy who wrote the sweet kids book about dreaming big
This also makes me ask myself, should i quit writing stuff online that everyone can potentially see forever and just write in a notebook or something? Hmm… I think that this is a lot more fun than writing in some musty book! Plus it’s a lot faster and easier to edit.
