Rejection: Part IV

For our last class of Level Five of The Program, our teacher (Rachel Mason, improv goddess) opened a Q & A. Background: She has a fabulous reputation in Chicago theatre. That said, she auditioned for SNL four times, Mad TV five times, and was never on a mainstage cast at SC.  I asked, "How do you deal with rejection?"

She gave a big sigh. Then: "I've gotten to the point I never feel rejected. They just found somebody else. At the end of the day, if you don't get an audition, you didn't lose anything you didn't already have."

And the math is forgettable, but it's so true. Failure feels like a loss, but no one actually takes anything from you. The only thing you no longer have are your expectations of success, which are often wrong anyway.

RM seems like a genuinely happy and useful person. The best type to be. So, she seems to have come out on top, eh?

My cohort. Our last night in the disgusting classroom with no windows.