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Calling all Thesbians! This week's episode is all about acting!!\n\nJohnny Beirne shares his experience pursuing a career as a performer and an actor. We talk about theatre, films, auditioning, and the mindset of a creative.\n\nHe also learns me on an interesting technique for body awareness called "The Alexander Technique".\n\nCheck him out on his IG! @JBJohnnyBeirne\n\nHere is the link to his video at Elen's Stardust Diner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-SyR2KAJSo&t=3s\n\nALSO! In the episode, we talk about Steven Pressfield's philosophy of "Acting as If".\n\nHere is the link to that essay: https://stevenpressfield.com/2016/10/writing-as-if/\n\nIf you haven't already, hit the website www.InsideTheMindsEye.com and throw us a subscribe/follow to receive new meditations, podcasts, and essays directly to your inbox!\n\nAnd, if you would like to support show, please share this episode with a friend! or, you can visit our Patreon page: www.Patreon.com/InsideTheMindsEye and support the show with dinero (you'll get cool merch)\n\nAnd, as always, in the words of Bill & Ted:\n\nBe excellent :)\n\n"Is life without meaning? Are you and I marooned on an atom of dust hurtling in the dark through a pointless cosmos?\n\nMaybe.\n\nBut we can\u2019t act as if we believed that.\n\nWe must act as if there were meaning, as if our lives and actions did have significance, as if love is real and death is an illusion, as if the future will be better than the past, whatever that means.\n\nOne of Seth Godin\u2019s great contributions is the idea of \u201cpicking yourself.\u201d Don\u2019t sit on a stool at Schwab\u2019s like Lana Turner waiting for someone else to pick you to be the next star.\n\nPick yourself.\n\nAct as if you were a pro, a fastball hitter, the real thing,\n\nAnd there\u2019s additional magic to the practice of acting as if and writing as if. In some crazy way, acting and writing as if makes our beliefs about ourselves come true.\n\nWhat we had only projected takes on its own reality. That\u2019s a law.\n\n\u201cYou\u2019re an actress,\u201d Art Carney tells Lily Tomlin at a scary moment in Robert Benton\u2019s great private eye flick The Late Show. \u201cAct brave.\u201d\n\n-Steven Pressfield