Rule Number 6
This picture was so lame..I just had to use it!
This one comes from “The Art of Possibility” an amazing book by Ben Zander, which serves to challenge some of the everyday assumptions we take for granted in everyday life. Challenging these “norms” gives you a way to unlock possibility -thus the name.
It was given to me by one of our dancers and for the past few weeks, I start my morning off by reading a few pages from it.
The fourth chapter is “Rule Number 6″: in order to reveal yourself, don’t take yourself too serious.
In a nutshell, by not taking ourselves too seriously we strip away the layers of our calculating self (ego, measurement, negativity, feelings of scarcity etc) to get down to our central self.
In dance I am always trying to get closer and closer to my central self. I think getting to the core of you should be the goal of every dancer.
Why do I dance? Because every movement, every dance, every shift, allows me to strip off the garbage that really isn’t me. It brings me closer to myself -the real me.
It can do the same for you, if you allow it to. Next time you are dancing, don’t take yourself serious, and see what happens. See what movements result, see how you move, see how you feel.
Shave off the layers of bullshit, and see yourself.
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