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As I record this video, summer is approaching, and with it, some time to take a break, and maybe pick up a new skill.

Mental Floss, one of my favorite online (and offline) magazines, has got just the ticket for you to learn something awesome. 50 tickets, as a matter of fact. A recent article on MF links to 50 things you can learn by watching free videos on YouTube.

Here are a dozen of what I think might be the most interesting to performers.

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Adam Lisagor makes what we affectionately call “explainer videos,” but he does it for really well known products like StichFix, Etsy, Lyft, Slack, Square, and AirBnB. And hundreds of others.

He knows a thing or two about making effective video. Here are five things he says you should pay attention to.

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I’ve heard actors arrogantly ask why in the world they should, if their agent had no part in the booking of a particular job, commission them on the work for that job.

Let me be blunt: it’s the very least you can do for your sales manager, given how little work you get.

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So…I’ve been asked a lot yesterday and today via text, email and phone…

“How’d the surgery go? How are you doing?”

And the answer is that the surgery happened yesterday. I’m ready for weeks or even months of immobility and rehab after my shoulder surgery.

That’s not what will happen, though.

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Many of the skills we learn are those that try to help us become self-sufficient. To be able to handle challenges by ourselves. To say “I’m self-made.” Somehow, that’s become a badge of honor.

I’m here to tell you that it’s fun in the beginning, but you’ll never get where you want to go by shutting yourself away from others. And the only way to move forward past your own level of expertise is to do some awesome team-building.

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In an age where diversity is the watchword when it comes to casting, directing, writing, producing and just about every other aspect of our work as performers, a strange condition remains very much in effect for us actors.

And no one seems to care one bit about it. And we’ve achieved something quite remarkable.

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I’ve got about 24 hours before I undergo arthroscopic surgery of my shoulder.

Here are a few thoughts on being afraid of the unknown.

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