Instead of focusing on impressing your audience what would it look like to entertain them?
If you didn’t have to impress your audience, if you didn’t have to focus on impressing, if they were already impressed with you…how would you entertain?
More often than not (in our minds) the word impress is associated with less mistakes, more perfection.
And artists feel they need to impress in order to win the crowd.
Because if an artist feels they impressed the audience with their version of virtuosity, then the artist lets themselves off the hook of actually entertaining.
They played a perfect, impressive show, now it’s up the audience to shower down praise and money. Right?
It’s all about your mindset and where you place priority of your time and actions when building your show.
True, there are people in the world who will pay good money for an impressive show.
But there are millions more who will pay all their money for an entertaining one.
p.s. I know I know, I could be getting lost in semantics here, and perhaps mis-defining some words. I probably am.
So I hope you’ll choose to absorb the idea more than the words.
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