A few years ago I learned the word sprezzatura (studied nonchalance : graceful conduct or performance without apparent effort). Whenever you see someone who "makes it look easy", that's sprezzatrura. and it's a thing to marvel, not scoff, at.
When I was leaving my college radio station I offered to teach the next production director how I did promos. He said, in essence, "Well, you can do it and it looks easy so, no thanks, I got it". I took a long breath, let that hang in the air, and said "good luck" and graduated the next week. The next fall after only a couple weeks I got a request from this person through a friend of mine still at uni to OH PLEASE GOD HELP ME, which I had to politely decline.
It says more about the other person's position on curiosity and creativity than it does on your skills (which are multitudinous and formidable) when they scoff.
I love the concept of sprezzatura. Standup comedians are so good at this - creating the illusion that they're improvising when actually every gesture has been carefully thought out. Ta so much for your kind words! (Although if you'd heard me trying to say 'recruitment requirements' at speed this morning for a radio commercial you'd have probably welcomed a rethink...)
A few years ago I learned the word sprezzatura (studied nonchalance : graceful conduct or performance without apparent effort). Whenever you see someone who "makes it look easy", that's sprezzatrura. and it's a thing to marvel, not scoff, at.
When I was leaving my college radio station I offered to teach the next production director how I did promos. He said, in essence, "Well, you can do it and it looks easy so, no thanks, I got it". I took a long breath, let that hang in the air, and said "good luck" and graduated the next week. The next fall after only a couple weeks I got a request from this person through a friend of mine still at uni to OH PLEASE GOD HELP ME, which I had to politely decline.
It says more about the other person's position on curiosity and creativity than it does on your skills (which are multitudinous and formidable) when they scoff.
I love the concept of sprezzatura. Standup comedians are so good at this - creating the illusion that they're improvising when actually every gesture has been carefully thought out. Ta so much for your kind words! (Although if you'd heard me trying to say 'recruitment requirements' at speed this morning for a radio commercial you'd have probably welcomed a rethink...)