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Take someone close to you: maybe a child, a partner or a parent. Their movie runs 24 hours a day,seven days a week for roughly 80 years. That is 700,000 hours. How many of those hours do you feature in the film? Even if you are married for 50 years and sleep in the same bed, you might make it up to 200,000 hours. If you do not live with them, then maybe 2,000 hours over 80 years.How many hours, when you are not with that person, are you thinking about them, imagining what they are doing and thinking? Maybe double the 2,000 hours to 4,000 hours?
Yes, others care about us, but in a global way, not the details of what we do with our lives. The truth is, in the nicest possible sense, no one else gives a s***. We become too caught up thinking about what others would think. We worry about what we should do. We hold on tight to a version of ourselves that we think is expected. What others really want is to know that we are happy if they are fond of us or that we are sad if we are their enemy.
Even parents or lovers have more than enough in front of them, trying to figure their own way through life without worrying endlessly about you. And this is when we are talking about people who know you and love you. What about people who have spent zero hours in your film? Or those tangential characters the followers on Instagram, for example, who have spent mere seconds in a hyper-edited semi-fictional account of your life movie. Do they count?
This truth, if you let it, can be deeply liberating. Think how much time we all spend worrying about our audience, or trying to please a parent, or bending ourselves to the wills of society. Once we accept that we are on our own, far from creating loneliness, it can free us up to take our "maverick path," to really figure out what makes us tick. In doing so, we end up making a far more interesting and 'successful' movie anyway, even if there were people watching aren't.which there
So who are you making your movie for? An abstract sense of society at large - what should I do,what is expected of me, how do I fit in?
Then there are people in our lives who exert a strong influence over what we choose to do. I work
with clients who are often second-guessing what key people in their lives would wish them to do.
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