Chapter 3: Planning the Rebellion

Freedom Begins By Breaking the Fourth Wall

Look in the Mirror

I have to write these set-up pieces to lay the philosophical groundwork. Without them, what came years later (and what’s unfolding now) wouldn’t make sense — or worse, might seem rudderless or random. So before we dive back into the career story, we’ll take a brief pause for some introspection.

It’s important to psychoanalyze yourself. To break the fourth wall on your own story. Turn to your audience in the middle of the performance and acknowledge both you and the story as character and construct. The audience is you.

Do you know who you are — and how you are? Do you know why you’re that way? And is it even changeable? What does research say about your innate traits, or your early experiences, and how they shape what you end up doing — or should do — later in life?