Living With L.A.Ws

Hey World,


My acting academy class, is an extreme one to say the least. Every two weeks we are divided into teams and given a specific challenge. A couple weeks ago each team was given a box of pizza and we had to make a scene incorporating that prop.

This week, we were given the task to find an agent, acting school, director/producer, photographer, and actor. This was very difficult, due to the short time frame we had, and how demanding each of these items were. However, my quadrant came up with the idea to approach this task utilizing "divisional labour", meaning we would break up the targets and let each person be in charge of a certain target. However, that plan backfired, as one person took on more than what she could have handled and resulted in our group failing miserably.

This experience taught me one of too things, I get irritated easily, and I need to improve my teamworking skills. I personally love the divisional labour style of teamwork, beacause at the end of the day, I just get to do me, while you do you; there is little to no communication with divisional labour. However, this isn't a wise approach, because a team must work together keeping in mind their weaknesses and strengths. My teams mistake was that we allowed people to take on more than what they could have chewed, and that was unrealistic. I only took on one of those options, which was inviting an actor to our class, and I was successful. Nevertheless, my team still failed because overall we did not accomplish every task. Thus, the saying is proven: "A team is only as strong as their weakest link".

At the end of the day, I am going to have to learn to deal with my peer's incompetence, because nobody's perfect, and it is our imperfections that keep life interesting, and that's my L.A.W