Powerful And Unpolished

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Ever wonder why success doesn't always equal fulfillment? I'm Tim Salmons. And with 30 years experience as an actor and a career spanning work in the blue collar corporate medical field, as well as public service industries, I've seen and experienced the human condition at its best and worst. Here on powerful and unpolished, we will explore the everyday traps, draining our energy and hindering fulfillment. This isn't just another success podcast.

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It's about breaking free from patterns that hold you back and limit your potential. Join me on this transformative journey as we explore and identify limiting traps, detach from draining patterns, and rediscover the power within, creating a life that is truly powerful and unpolished.

Tim: 00:52

Good day, everyone. Welcome to Powerful and Unpolished. I'm Tim Salmons. I'm your host. For those of you who have returned to listen, thank you very much.

Tim: 01:02

I greatly appreciate that. We're doing another solo episode. They seem to be fitting my schedule lately, so I hope they're insightful and quick and easy and give you a little bit of entertainment in your day or maybe a little bit of insight into your day. So today, I'm going to explore I've touched on it a little bit here and there, but I'm going to explore the concept of of theater and acting and film and entertainment and how that kinda shows up in the world and in our culture, from sort of its original or some of the original grassroots aspect of it. So we live in a time where it seems like there's a lot of energy.

Tim: 01:54

There's a lot of, reaction. There's a lot of charge between people and situations in life, and and almost maybe for some people, it's a feeling that life is getting taken carried away or or the reaction is so big, it's overwhelming. And I go back to sort of my acting roots and and and exploring the information there. And if you really go back to look at what theater or performance originally was. I mean and when I say originally, it's you can go back into history.

Tim: 02:36

I mean, we're, an oratory type species. We we share our history through stories as we pass them down and things like that. And maybe it's just my assumption, but I always thought that, part of the reason why we told stories and learned about situations

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was so that we didn't

Tim: 02:58

have to go out and learn them through the life for the University of Hard Knocks, but that doesn't really seem to be the case much anymore. We instead of learning the lessons, we just like to go relive the lessons or a a lot of, people on and it makes great for great social media. You know? It's it's all that clickbait that's out there in the world to keep people clicking and watching and looking because, you know, let's watch people crash and burn and fall on their face. And so if you look back at acting in theater, back in the medieval days, they would go around in carts, and the carts would be to demonstrate lessons either around religion or morals or values, but it was often related to some sort of spiritual philosophy.

Tim: 03:58

And back in the day, they were called either mystery plays or morality plays, and they would have farces and and and different aspects, but they would they would pull up in these cards, put on a show for the local village, and then go on to the next show or or the next village. And it was all to spread the word and spread the experience and and, build that connection. And part of it was it was to educate. It was to inform. It was to to demonstrate the the the evils that are enticing or present to the main character or the characters involved in the play, hoping that the people, the audience members witnessing this would see this and be like, oh, wow.

Tim: 04:44

This is what not to do, or maybe this is something to do because it actually helped, you know, move you in a positive direction instead of constructive, direction. And the idea was that you do this presentation. The actors really get into character, so it it makes it as real as possible as well as being entertaining because, you know, if you're just up there preaching with these characters, it's you're gonna have a lot of people walk away. So there they there was an entertainment factor to make it more palatable, to make it more relatable, and which was fine. But fast forward, you know, centuries, centuries, centuries down the road, we now, you know, have the opportunity to go look at plays and to look at movies and to look at film and performances or even in our work.

Tim: 05:38

You know, we may be engaged in a, training that is put on for a scenario or a simulation experience to help us learn and grow in a in a set or or controlled environment. And the, it seems like a lot of people or a lot of the cultures, not just here in the United States, but a lot of the cultures around around the world, have sort of lost that connection with what they're watching on stage or watching on film. They're looking at it primarily for entertainment purposes, and that's fine. But there's a whole another layer, a whole another aspect of what are these characters going through. I mean, just celebrating the fact that somebody is incredibly dysfunctional.

Tim: 06:39

Oh, wow. That's great acting, and it's great drama. And then they turn around, and they go home in their everyday lives, and they they replicate they replicate this. It's like instead of learning something from it and being, like, going, wow. That's that doesn't seem like that feel very good being in a relationship where, you know, your your spouse or your lover cheats on you and, but then they go home, and then they replicate it.

Tim: 07:04

And it's this aspect of we've sort of lost the art of witnessing and being an audience member to grow ourselves. Because if you really think about it, it's it's there to be able to help to educate and also to entertain. But we have lost the the some some of the intelligence of being able to witness something either through a presentation and say, wow. You know? That's that doesn't seem like that'd be that much fun.

Tim: 07:40

I don't really wanna go do that. But our culture or or or the world culture seems to have quite shifted the other direction. You know, we witness all of this crazy stuff on film or this crazy stuff on stage sometimes, and then we turn around and go replicate it in our life. And then we wonder why we have, you know, breaking down relationships, breaking down communication, people so reactionary that they're actually lashing out at one another, sometimes in a more mortal sense. I mean, they're they can't handle the guy who cut him off because it was such a personal affront.

Tim: 08:26

And it's it's it's one of those things where we've kind of just moved in that moved that direction, and I guess I just wanted to highlight that today. Maybe when you're watching a movie, if you are watching it for entertainment value, instead of just saying, oh, I know it's an action movie. I it's not real. But when you're driving, you know, 95 miles an hour or cutting in and out of cars left and right, not realizing that there are family members and and, you know, people you may know, people you may not know. And I I sort of wanted to bring this up because I've seen it a lot on the road and how I'm not a slow driver, but to have people cut in and out and blown by you at 3 times the speed that you are, it's like, wow.

Tim: 09:22

There's sort of a disconnect, and the opportunity may be here is grow the awareness. Be a little bit more open to when you are watching a movie, realize it is just a movie. When you are watching a series, that's the one area that I see a lot of the interaction is you have a lot of these series, and I I guess I'm just wired a certain way. I I'm I don't need a a ton of drama in my life, and I hear a lot of people who say who say that exact phrase. Oh, I hate drama.

Tim: 10:04

I hate drama. But they always seem to be the people that oftentimes have drama around them. And it's there there's that cognitive dissonance. They don't realize that the frustrations and struggles that are that keep bugging them in their life are oftentimes the drama that they keep putting energy into. And I don't think you know, this is never intentional.

Tim: 10:30

It's it's never intentional that I know of. You might find 1 or 2 people out there that are that manipulative that would make it intentional, but it's really more about raising the opportunity of awareness to say, yeah. You know? Just just witness it a little bit more. Witness about how you are a participant in the reaction that you have for the for yourself and the world around you.

Tim: 10:55

This is something I, by all means, I'm I'm just sharing my own experience. I I I have to check myself in the mirror quite frequently to make sure that I'm being fair to myself and I'm being fair to the situation. I don't always get it right, but I strive to actually be effective and considerate in the situations that I engage with. So don't know if this is, that exciting of a of a material, but I I thought it was very important. I thought it was, maybe when you're watching a movie or you're watching TV, you know, what what are you what are you watching often, and are you taking the energy with you when you're done walking away?

Tim: 11:43

And is that energy then showing up in your life? It's just something to consider. I guess if I'm watching a a show like Willy Wonka and stuff like this, and I walked around and started singing, and people would probably wanna lock me up and but at least it'd be kinda driving them crazy by a freaky way. They'd be like, this guy's weird. This guy's and it's like, yeah.

Tim: 12:07

I'm weird in a in a way that is hedging towards silliness or hedging towards having fun or or letting my inner child out. So, for what that's worth. Anyway, didn't know I was gonna bring up Willy Wonka today, but that's the cool thing about powerful and unpolished. This is incredibly unpolished. With that said, I just honor you.

Tim: 12:38

You're listening. I encourage you to honor yourself, question yourself, and, be fair with yourself when you can. And when you are watching, look at the world around you. Look at how people oftentimes, unknowingly or knowingly, show up as, you know, oftentimes, people show up how they don't like to be. And you can really see that's that energy we engage with.

Tim: 13:15

So it's just something to consider. I hope you guys are well. Wish you well. If you, enjoy the show, please just give us a like. But until next time, and I'm hoping to have a guest next time.

Tim: 13:30

Until next time, I wish you all the best, and I wish you good entertainment and good movies and, positive healthy clickbait out there on social media. There's so much other chaos out there to to to veer away from. So I wish you good, healthy,

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uplifting

Tim: 13:52

clickbait. And until next time, I wish you all the best. Cheers.

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