Mark Duplass has this great speech he gave a few years back to aspiring film makers.
He warned us about waiting for the cavalry. That as creatives we can fall into the trap of thinking that the cavalry is coming and that any tiny incremental improvement we make in our work might trick us into believing that.
Big breakthroughs make us think the cavalry is coming. Those small wins can be intoxicating too.
Mark says the cavalry is not coming. It might feel like they are and people will tell you they are. But they’re not.
And Mark says this isn’t something to be sad about. The truth is, you don’t want the cavalry to come and save you.
The truth is, you get to a certain point of success of your own creation and the cavalry kinda is coming. Massive career changing opportunities come to you. The cavalry!
But when that happens, you don’t want ‘career changing’
You’ve worked hard for this career, thank you very much.
They came too late and you’re not interested in all the kings horses.
Because you are the king of your own castle now. And you are your own cavalry.
Mark is pretty on to it, I reckon
