If you want to be a clown, you might think you should start by buying the red nose.
It makes sense because that’s the uniform. Clowns have red noses. You want to be a clown? Get a red nose.
But does looking the part make you a clown?
You may have natural talent. Maybe you effortlessly make people laugh around the bonfire. Maybe the entry next to your photo in the High School Yearbook says “Class Clown.” But what about when the lights on you in the center ring or working the crowd? Clowns act in front of strangers. Do you even do that?
Have you done the important work of figuring out how to act like a clown? Do you know what that important work is? Can you list the hard things you’ll need to do to act like a clown?
You’ll start making progress once you realize that just because you have a red nose, it doesn’t make you a clown.
