How To Stay Sane In This Crazy Business
A HFF Masterclass on maintenance and mental health
I realized I’ve written about this subject of maintenance and mental health quite a bit. I wanted to make it easy for you if you wanted to ponder the “how” to achieve this goal.
Recognize that this industry, cinema — and any creative field —is a marathon. It doesn’t all happen at once. You build step by step. It helps to examine those steps:
Remember the real goals of why you entered this field:
“Everyone wants to be a builder, but no one wants to do the maintenance.” It needs to be part of your creative practice and job description.
I find it helps to look at our industry and see the barriers and challenges. It isn’t you that any of the crap is directed towards. Our fractured industry is due to our fractured selves. Until all are healed (i.e never) we will have to learn to survive with this type of crap:
Fortunately, we can change how we look at things:
And don’t let it get you down. It is not about how you ride, but how you climb back onto the horse:
We can embrace the folly of our ways:
And work to develop a thicker skin, even when vulnerability is a gift.
There are tactics to deploy when others don’t agree with you:
10. The trick is to keep on keeping on… faith…
And accept loss as part of the process:
Be prepared (as best we can):
But really…:
But..:
And of course, we need to share our findings and encourage others to do so:
FWIW, I was once advised, while my first film was falling apart, to “choose my memories”. It too helps. Why? Because:
Thank you for these. They are helping me get thru some tough times.
It's funny,I just a substack newsletter with the same theme, guess I'm not the only one! https://open.substack.com/pub/mitchellteplitsky/p/how-a-rural-indiana-pride-center?r=i6t2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false