PROFESSIONALISM
I’M not infrequently asked what makes one a “professional” author, dancer or, more recently actor/actress. Actually, the answer is quite easy, but it has several different yet intertwined aspects:
First, there’s the business of whatever it is one is doing. A professional is someone who accepts money or other financial remuneration for what they’re doing. It’s not about how much. It can be $0.01 or the equivalent in barter or trade. The moment one accepts money or other remuneration, one changes from a writer, amateur or volunteer to an author or professional.
Second, there’s the inherent meaning. A professional anything dedicates his or her life to perfection in a particular area of expertise, being the very best that one is capable of everywhere along the way. Discipline.
Third, there’s attitude. A professional helps others to become the very best of which they’re capable. Initially, this translates to being careful with hubris, striving instead for honesty, transparency and humility. That soon develops into a sense of internal joy in sharing what one has learned, experienced and acquired along the way. Ultimately, it blossoms into cooperation and service over competition and sales; a realization that the greatest reward for professionalism has nothing to do with the illusions of money and power, but with a richer spiritual connection to everyone and everything about us. Spiritualism (a sense of place within a Higher Power) verses Religion (a social club run like a business surrounding a theme). The very best authoring, dancing and acting comes from this final connection. It elevates what one is doing to a spiritual plane. “Better than sex,” I often hear, and have to agree, though in agreeing I mean to elevate the professional pursuit rather than denigrate love, affection, eroticism or sex.
It took many years of authoring before I was in the “spiritual” place from which came THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, resulted in my own gooseflesh when dancing, and the elation of a perfect filming that even I enjoy viewing and reviewing.
THE EDGE OF MADNESS in book, eBook and audiobook format at https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859.
Daniel S. Janik and Setsuko Tsuchiya Ballroom and Latin Dance Competition/Performance Sampler at https://youtu.be/ync4vCUxEoc
“The STATIC Movie” by K. Simmons Productions currently in production at https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie.
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Author, Dancer, and Actor (as “Will Gardner” in The STATIC Movie)
First, there’s the business of whatever it is one is doing. A professional is someone who accepts money or other financial remuneration for what they’re doing. It’s not about how much. It can be $0.01 or the equivalent in barter or trade. The moment one accepts money or other remuneration, one changes from a writer, amateur or volunteer to an author or professional.
Second, there’s the inherent meaning. A professional anything dedicates his or her life to perfection in a particular area of expertise, being the very best that one is capable of everywhere along the way. Discipline.
Third, there’s attitude. A professional helps others to become the very best of which they’re capable. Initially, this translates to being careful with hubris, striving instead for honesty, transparency and humility. That soon develops into a sense of internal joy in sharing what one has learned, experienced and acquired along the way. Ultimately, it blossoms into cooperation and service over competition and sales; a realization that the greatest reward for professionalism has nothing to do with the illusions of money and power, but with a richer spiritual connection to everyone and everything about us. Spiritualism (a sense of place within a Higher Power) verses Religion (a social club run like a business surrounding a theme). The very best authoring, dancing and acting comes from this final connection. It elevates what one is doing to a spiritual plane. “Better than sex,” I often hear, and have to agree, though in agreeing I mean to elevate the professional pursuit rather than denigrate love, affection, eroticism or sex.
It took many years of authoring before I was in the “spiritual” place from which came THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, resulted in my own gooseflesh when dancing, and the elation of a perfect filming that even I enjoy viewing and reviewing.
THE EDGE OF MADNESS in book, eBook and audiobook format at https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859.
Daniel S. Janik and Setsuko Tsuchiya Ballroom and Latin Dance Competition/Performance Sampler at https://youtu.be/ync4vCUxEoc
“The STATIC Movie” by K. Simmons Productions currently in production at https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie.
https://i.postimg.cc/6Q156yVV/Author-...
Author, Dancer, and Actor (as “Will Gardner” in The STATIC Movie)
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