Just Make The Move

The Schwa show tonight was real fun. There was a lot of group work, some songs, some dancing, and some transformational edits. There was one moment that stuck out for me. Jeff and Craig were on all fours and Jeannie made it an Olympic cheer leading practice session, they were practicing the pyramid. I recognized the game and walked on to complete the base, Kate and Susie walked on shortly after and climbed on our backs. Timmy walked on last to be the top. The thing was that after Timmy walked on he got cold feet about climbing to the top of the pyramid. It took him forever to actually get on top. Which he finally did after a lot of prodding.

When you set up something like this you are making a commitment to your teammates and to the audience that you will finish what you started. You say that you're going to do a human pyramid you better make a human pyramid. There is no reason to delay simply make the move and move on. If anyone would have been uncomfortable with the move we would have stopped it, it's not Timmy's job or place for that matter to judge if we are capable of holding him up. If any of us felt like we couldn't do it, we wouldn't have put ourselves in that position.

This happens a lot in shows in various ways. Someone sets up something they're going to do but then they delay it. Like a skydiving scene where the person tries to delay jumping out of the plane, a break up scene where the person delays actually breaking up, a recording studio scene where the person delays actually singing etc. You make a commitment in those cases to do what you say you are going to do. So just do it. I've found audiences love failure almost as much as they love success, sometimes more so. They love the attempt. They want to see you try. They want to see you be brave.

You can see the move, just make the move.

Pull the trigger.