You don’t do your best work at rehearsal. You do your best when you have to: when you’re on stage in front of a live audience, when the publisher is waiting for the manuscript, when everyone is waiting for you to step up. Everything else is prologue. That’s not to say we shouldn’t pursue excellence or that we prematurely step into the spotlight. But it does mean the way we hone our craft is by doing it—not talking about it or studying it, but by getting to work. Thriving Artists do not wait for these opportunities to share; they seek them out.
