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If I stepped back every time projects make me
habitually grumpy I'd NEVER get anything off the ground!!!!
=8-)
(How about those YANKEES!!!!)
"Those poor kids. So young. So nauseous."
--Krusty the Klown
Telethon for Motion Sickness
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 8:19
PM
Subject: Re: RAT Which Idea Now?
Good gambit, JB. Deal me in.
1. Does the
project have _you_ written all over it?
2. Years on, recalling
the time spent putting it together, will you say,
"Those were wonderful
days"?
3. All projects demand and consume energy; will this one
also give energy
back? Will it keep you enlivened as well as
drained?
COROLLARY: Will it feed you? (As Doug said, theatre is
food.) Rule of
thumb: will you and others want seconds? If it
is merely delicious without
being nutritious, or vice versa, you're going
to get tired of eating it day
after day. Think Oliver Twist: will you
want to risk everything by asking
for more? Will your
collaborators? Will your audience?
If you can answer 'yes' to all
of these questions -- a full-throated 'yes'
that will not turn to ashes in
your mouth later on, no matter what happens
-- you are lucky and had better
appreciate it. If, however, nothing occurs
to you that meets the
above criteria (or whatever yours may be), then while
you wait, you are
faced with a choice between doing Something and doing
Nothing. Both
have advantages; either can 'turn,' like milk, with time.
(Bob Dylan: "Too
much of nothing/Can make a man ill at ease....")
To decide which to do,
figure out which you've been doing lately, Something
or Nothing. Then
ask: "Am I habitually grumpy these days?" If yes,
switch; try
the other for a while and see if it helps.
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