Confidence | The Confident Actor

Over the past 5 years, I’ve had the oppor­tu­nity to meet some suc­cess­ful actors, i.e., their “day job” is act­ing, either full or part time.   In most all cases, the com­mon fac­tor has been con­fi­dence, i.e., you meet them, and — it’s not ego but hon­est grounded self-assurance — you know they know what they’re doing, i.e., you have faith and con­fi­dence in them, because they have faith and con­fi­dence in them­selves.  They just “know” they can “do it,” “it” being know­ing that they can audi­tion at a pro­fes­sional level, that they can ful­fill the require­ments of a scene or role.

Where does con­fi­dence come from?

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and cer­tain of what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1).

Ros­a­beth Moss Kan­ter makes a sin­gu­lar point, over and over again, in her book Con­fi­dence: How Win­ning Steaks & Los­ing Streaks Begin and End: con­fi­dence comes from win­ning and win­ning comes from doing those things that lead to winning.

Napoleon Hill makes the point that Faith is action, that Faith is IN action: “Faith with­out works is dead.” You must plan and work for the results you want. Faith needs to work in AT THE SAME TIME with action, not inde­pen­dent of it. Faith IN action! Applied faith is the only faith that works. You must do in order to receive. Just think­ing and antic­i­pat­ing is not enough. Act as if you knew the final out­come already, and it is the pos­i­tive one you are expecting.

OK. I’m going to become con­fi­dent.  I’m going to become con­fi­dent by tak­ing action, by doing those things that lead to suc­cess, and I’ve got just the plan to do that.

What’s the plan? Stay tuned …

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