THE BOOK OF PRACTICE: HOW TO DO BETTER WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WELL
About this ebook
Did you know that you can have a lifetime of achievement and fruitful purpose, aided by tools of thought, action and choice that are easy and fun to use?
It’s true.
Also, there is a place… a physical and mental space… where you can do your work, whatever work you choose, efficiently and effectively in your own way and to your own ends. A place where you can – get this – bask in the glow of your own productivity.
Can you feel that glow? Would you like to feel it more?
You can, you know. Any time you want. All you need is to have a practice.
Having a practice means devoting time and energy to doing better the things that you want to do well.
You can have a practice in any part of your life. Job or career, writing or art, professional pursuits, personal goals, spiritual quests, relationships… anything you can think of, anything that makes you say That! That’s what I want to do better, and more! That thing right there!
That’s where your practice – or one of your practices – may lie.
Think of that thing now. Present it to yourself and say, “There! I want to put my energy there.”
And just like that you are in practice. Just with the simple desire to try, you have begun the important journey of learning to do better the things that you want to do well.
About the author
John Vorhaus is best known for his classic comedy writing textbook, The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You’re Not. Now available in five languages, this “bible of comedy writing” continues to be a definitive source of information and inspiration for television, film and fiction writers from Santa Monica to Scandinavia.
An international consultant in television and film script development, Vorhaus has worked for television networks, film schools, production companies and film funding bodies in 37 countries on five continents. He created his own situation comedy in Romania, ran the writing staff of the Russian version of Married… with Children, and co-created two social action TV dramas in Nicaragua. He has been a meaningful change-agent for tens of thousands of writers all around the world.
Vorhaus’s scriptwriting credits run from situation comedy to episodic drama, and from web-based programming to theatrical-release screenplays, feature animation and documentaries, including the provocative Misery Loves Comedy. His latest books include the little book of STANDUP and The Book of Practice: How to Do Better What You Want to do Well.
Vorhaus is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, a member of the Writers Guild of America and a gold-medal athlete in the sport of ultimate frisbee.
