Many of us spend many years learning Method.
Method is a beginning for some artforms.
And an end for others.
It's fine in itself for task orientated work. Legal work for example, judicial arenas in general, care in the community.
But after learning method, we improvise technique. Technique is expertise. A high level of expertise is mastery. Mastery is an individual solution to an individual situation.
Individual solutions are needed in areas such as improvisational entertainment (Improv), perhaps Info Technology (IT) and certain parts of (non-surgical) medical and paramedical disciplines.
Improvisation involves game, risk, play.
It might not suit a lawyer.
It might not suit a nurse.
It would suit a lawyer that sues a nurse however. There are plenty of holes in the ground where his earthworm can jump out. Then he can extend them, eating away at their blurry edges so that his victim falls through.
He gets rich.
You get hurt.
Mastery has to be just that. The degree of artistic and technical competence that can defeat a legal process that lies in wait.
You'll need every corner of your artistic brain to survive.
Give it some thought whenever you feel like bigging up your job description.
Think of that next time you think you want some limelight.
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