Reminders for myself

Yet we should never forget that the product of work isn’t only the work — it’s also the worker. Doing the work changes you; the up-close expe­ri­ence trans­forms your capa­bil­i­ties and even your desires. Insights and ideas emerge from that interface, and I believe the agent mae­stros lose a lot — too much — when they take their big step back.

He hasn’t stopped working since. “It’s really a wild thing,” he said. “The best word I can use is surrender. I just surrendered my obsession with this craft.”

Before, he said, his relationship to dance was selfish. “It was all about, what am I going to do next?” he said. “I just let it go. And then I feel like it came back tenfold.”