I used to hate dancing with a visceral passion. If it was ever suggested, I’d say “oh, I can’t dance.” There’s a visceral, bodily rejection to the idea of performing this action, of being associated with this kind of identity. Often, it’s not so much a rejection out of dislike more than a self-defense mechanism to avoid being conflated with a foreign entity. Dancing is definitively
"My approach to what I do in my job — and it might even be the approach to my life — is that everything I do is the most important thing I do. Whether it’s a play or the next film. It is the most important thing. I know it’s not going to be the most important thing, and it might not be close to being the best, but I have to make it the most important thing. That means I will be ambitious with my job and not with my career. That’s a very big difference, because if I’m ambitious with my career, everything I do now is just stepping-stones leading to something — a goal I might never reach, and so everything will be disappointing. But if I make everything important, then eventually it will become a career. Big or small, we don’t know. But at least everything was important."
Hahahaha you nailed the middle school dance descriptions 🤣 I love the question reframing so that instead of using a deficit mindset, the question is framed in a more positive manner (e.g. what can I add instead) 👏
this resonated!!! and random, but what you write about dancing through life really reminds me of the last bit of the mads mikkelsen interview here: https://www.vulture.com/amp/article/mads-mikkelsen-in-conversation.html
"My approach to what I do in my job — and it might even be the approach to my life — is that everything I do is the most important thing I do. Whether it’s a play or the next film. It is the most important thing. I know it’s not going to be the most important thing, and it might not be close to being the best, but I have to make it the most important thing. That means I will be ambitious with my job and not with my career. That’s a very big difference, because if I’m ambitious with my career, everything I do now is just stepping-stones leading to something — a goal I might never reach, and so everything will be disappointing. But if I make everything important, then eventually it will become a career. Big or small, we don’t know. But at least everything was important."
Hahahaha you nailed the middle school dance descriptions 🤣 I love the question reframing so that instead of using a deficit mindset, the question is framed in a more positive manner (e.g. what can I add instead) 👏