"sounds a bit like the first year of the Oxford maths degree"
From what I've heard, the acting thing is a bit more scary... The maths degree will show you that your previous rigorous reasoning intuitions were wrong, and will fix them - which can feel like a fairly major thing when you're in the middle of it. But that's quite a small part of your life and self when compared to the raw materials that those actors work with - I've heard that they actually systematically dismantle their entire personalities as the initial part of their training. That is to say, all their feelings.
I only have a single source mind - a single conversation with a theatre producer/admin friend of mine. Having said that, sable_veins does seem to be hinting at the same stuff... Perhaps he'll confirm or deny my assumptions. From what my friend mentioned of their methods in that conversation, it did seem to be grey-area UN human rights stuff...
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From what I've heard, the acting thing is a bit more scary... The maths degree will show you that your previous rigorous reasoning intuitions were wrong, and will fix them - which can feel like a fairly major thing when you're in the middle of it. But that's quite a small part of your life and self when compared to the raw materials that those actors work with - I've heard that they actually systematically dismantle their entire personalities as the initial part of their training. That is to say, all their feelings.
I only have a single source mind - a single conversation with a theatre producer/admin friend of mine. Having said that, sable_veins does seem to be hinting at the same stuff... Perhaps he'll confirm or deny my assumptions. From what my friend mentioned of their methods in that conversation, it did seem to be grey-area UN human rights stuff...