The fact that you’re a human being means you have a way in.
Early on as a teacher I’d easily feel out of my depth when teaching things I didn’t have all the answers to. We get hypnotised in the culture to believing that we have to be experts.
More often than not, we don’t need to wear that responsibility. We just need a way in.
In acting, we’re encouraged to find truth in the imagined circumstances of a character. One of my teachers Miranda Harcourt calls this ‘make it true for you’. The text talks about a cousin? Build an internal reality of that person.
Make it true for you is the secret to finding confidence when we feel out of our depth in other arenas too.
I don’t know about drums and I can’t play the drums. So I have not connection to them right? No way to make it true for me?
Well I’d say the fact that I can’t play the drums is a relationship to the drums. I know what drums are. I had a friend at high school who played the drums. I’ve always liked that drum solo by Phil Collins.
I suddenly have found my way in.
No matter what we bring ourselves to, in any arena, we always have the ability to make it true for ourselves.
Education is about connection. So finding that connection to any material we teach is vital.
Make it true for you and you’ll have a never ending source of connection.
