Exeunt Magazine: Less than 24 hours after returning from Edinburgh, having slowly started to reacquaint myself with books, baths and broccoli, and already the intensity of the last three weeks is starting to fade. This always happens. It’s as if you step off the train at King’s Cross and a switch is flipped. The colours dim. The song ends.
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Tripney, in this article, captures the feelings of returning time and again to such a powerful theater festival. I’ve never really participated in theater that was as interactive as the pieces described in the article, but I’ve seen shows that have been so powerful and immersive that I too felt like I was a part of the action. Often, I’ve heard theater described as an escape from real life, a way to ignore whatever’s going on in your mind and focus on someone else for a couple hours. In a way, experiencing theater like she does is a form of escape; she flies to a different country and becomes completely immersed in the experience. Due to the temporary nature of theater and the use of the word ‘escape,’ one might think that the theater does not become part of the person who experiences it. Tripney contradicts this assumption. I believe that the best kind of theater is not the kind that you are separate from or that you return from and forget about; the best kind is the theater that changes the way you see the world and becomes a part of your memories and of who you are.
In 2008 I was in Edinburgh for my parents belated "honeymoon" during the Fringe Festival. Neither of them are particularly artistic, so we had no idea about the significance of the festival, or the meaning it would have to me later in life. It is one of my dreams to return to Edinburgh during the festival. There is so much importance to creating meaningful art in the festival setting. When we create an environment where basically everything goes, we are allowing people to thrive. Similar to Burning Man, people are able to create what they want at Fringe. The art created in festivals are things that we would never see anywhere else, and even for people uninterested in art, it's something that you should experience at least once just to expand your intellectual horizons. In this article the author captures the spirit of Fringe and the importance of it's community expertly, as well as the comradery of the theatrical community itself, which is often hard to capture.
The Article “This is how I tried to fight impostor syndrome when I got promoted”, by Anisa Purbasari Horton, is exaclty the article I should be reading right now.
Like Anisa, and 70 % of people, I have felt “like a fraud despite having outward evidence of success”. Especially since arriving at Carnegie I can see muself succumbing to the habits described and habits that I have done before coming here. Most accomplishments don’t sink in, and I usally sell my self short when descrbing any talent or skill; from my pinterest boards to my work and progress with self reflection. I shouldn’t rely on the validation of others to make me feel secure, I can’t rely on that, most commpliments don’t sink in from me either. So for true validation I should seek compliments from myself. Like I do with alot of thing in my life already, I should look inward for work confidence and validation of preformance accomplishments. I already have been doing some of these things, but not in rotine, and not focused on a goal or like preformance confidence. After reading this article I will do thoose things in a more regulated focused manner. I will also practice more of her ideas: Power Posing, Postive Affirmation, and Keeping to a Praise and Achievements Folder.
The Article “This is how I tried to fight impostor syndrome when I got promoted”, by Anisa Purbasari Horton, is exaclty the article I should be reading right now.
Like Anisa, and 70 % of people, I have felt “like a fraud despite having outward evidence of success”. Especially since arriving at Carnegie I can see muself succumbing to the habits described and habits that I have done before coming here. Most accomplishments don’t sink in, and I usally sell my self short when descrbing any talent or skill; from my pinterest boards to my work and progress with self reflection. I shouldn’t rely on the validation of others to make me feel secure, I can’t rely on that, most commpliments don’t sink in from me either. So for true validation I should seek compliments from myself. Like I do with alot of thing in my life already, I should look inward for work confidence and validation of preformance accomplishments. I already have been doing some of these things, but not in rotine, and not focused on a goal or like preformance confidence. After reading this article I will do thoose things in a more regulated focused manner. I will also practice more of her ideas: Power Posing, Postive Affirmation, and Keeping to a Praise and Achievements Folder.
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