Behavioural
Traits such as Attitude, Motivation and Time Management These include the ability to arrange one's own tasks for best performance to learn from experience to ask questions and correct one's mistakes to absorb criticism and direction without feeling defeated, resentful, or insulted. Om Puri, one of our finest actors, was fifteen years old and in the ninth class when he had to find his own money if he wished to continue his studies.
His headmaster was sympathetic, and gave him work tutoring younger children. Puri was a bright student, but he found that to teach in a way that his students understood him, he needed to prepare better. So he would get up at 5 a.m. to prepare for his teaching - making notes, jotting down key points, devising problems.
At 8 am., he went to the home of two of his pupils, where would rush to school at ten. received a breakfast and a small fee. He In the afternoon, when he had washed his clothes and utensils, cleaned his room and cooked his lunch, some more students arrived for their lessons.
He also had to find time - his own studies, and he finished the day by teaching mathematics in an evening school. It was a gruelling schedule, but in the three years that he followed it, says Om Puri, he learnt the lessons that helped him in his later life. One lesson was the importance of thorough preparation.
"Today, whenever I take up a film assignment, I do a lot of homework. For instance, when I played a weaver, I lived for 15 days among the weavers of Pochampalli village. Andhra Pradesh", says Puri. Here he not only leant to weave, he carefully studied the mannerisms and behaviour of the craftsmen.
"Thanks to this, I was able to bring authenticity to my role." He also learnt the importance of time management. He now has the reputation of a thorough professional who doesn't waste anyone's time:
"I learnt early on that you can get a lot more done if you stick to a schedule." "Attitude is the mother of luck", says a writer who has been a basketball player and coach in America. "Every life has its setbacks. Facing those setbacks is what keeps you alive.
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