Why does SPOCK hold the key?

Why does SPOCK hold the key?

I came across a thread on Reddit where people asked how Hollywood actors manage to behave and act out the same thoughts and ideas of the characters they play.

Obviously, they unconsciously take on the character’s personalities.

But, the longer answer is about the actor Leonard Nimoy, who played the character Spock for 12-14 hours per day, five days a week. After playing the character all week, he found himself talking, thinking and behaving like Spock up to Sunday evening. 

Playing a stoic and emotionally distant character all week, made him a stoic and emotionally distant individual off camera.

He found his regular personality would return by Sunday, only to start playing Spock again on Monday.

Years later, Leonard Nimoy said, he caught himself having Vulcan speech patterns, social attitudes, logic patterns and suppressed emotions long after the show ended.

Interesting…

You need to take on a different character to break long term patterns if they don’t serve your goals.

Training regularly is difficult, until you see you can work towards greater strength and improved mental health. 

Losing 40 kilograms, which I did in 2015, forced me to change parts of myself, for example: Being proud when someone calls me BIGWILL, starting from school days isn’t conducive to losing a lot of fat and becoming significantly smaller.

While we wait for our alter ego to become part of our everyday selves, we must start by doing the things we know are important to our goals.

I like to follow these two RULES:

RULE 1: You don’t have to finish, but you do have to start.

And:

Rule 2: You don’t have to start, but you have to finish if you do.

When building a personal habit, it might make sense to embrace the first rule. You don’t have to run all the way, every day, but you do have to get out of the house and start running.

And when making promises to yourself, your family or your Coach, where trust matters, the second rule definitely applies.

Just William