How do you create a fluid and immersive play? One that consists of multiple performers, backstage coordination and a story flow that draws you minute-by-minute? There’s only one way—practice, practice, and practice! With only two more weeks into the show, the Eagles ran through their scripts, started rehearsals and created props. Also, they also juggled […]
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This week is the transition week for the Eagles. They completed their script and will soon enter production. Both the Elementary School (ES) and Middle School (MS) will be producing their own play. Naturally, this means different stories and variation in their Drama & Play journey. In between, Eagles worked through challenging situations together amongst
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How does one generate ideas? First, one needs to overcome the Resistance (read Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art). Resistance is that friction that holds you from taking the first step. Resistance also appears in the form of organization roadblocks, such as judgment from peers. Pixar reduces those frictions by using a process called the
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Two months over the year. How was that New Year Resolution(s)? Life progressed through a cycle. As Malaysians, many of us celebrated the Chinese New Year (CNY). It was not one day, but 15 days of celebrations! That New Year Resolution will restart again, tomorrow. No worries. But there is this tingling uneasiness. There was
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What a week! After five weeks of learning and preparation, the Eagles were finally off to camping. The Middle School had four days and three nights of camping. They camped independently in three tents and built their living areas in two competing groups; while the Elementary School Eagles camped with their parents for one night.
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This week—only three days of Acton Academy spread between two days of public holidays gives limited time for preparation for next week’s camping. The Eagles looked forward to the first camp. Exciting times! This week was all about camping and exhibition preparation. I will let the picture do most of the talking. Even with limited
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21 days into a habit. Done. What happens now? Time for new habits? Or maybe the human in us want attention. Why has nobody noticed anything? Here’s one of those better posters that the fitness industry. There’s some truth to it. But Acton Academy is not a fitness industry for motivated adults. The child craves
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Week three in the year. Did you manage to nail one of your new daily practices in a continuous streak of 21 days? If your answer is yes—congratulations, you have created a new habit. Often, this does not happen. Old habits die hard. The comfortable path is homeostasis. You cannot give up, you have to try
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After punching your weight with a strong New Year enthusiasm, there would be creeps of distraction, lack of focus, discipline and maybe self-punishing thoughts. Plainly, it is the resistance. Businesses take advantage of this—a common theme from the fitness gym industry: Gyms take advantage of New Year’s resolutions to rope newbies into year-long contracts, knowing full
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Happy New Year! Wishing all of you a great start to 2018! A New Year is about renewed spirits and often, New Year resolutions. Usually, you would expect: go to the gym every day, eat organic vegan diet, or get that lucrative job or promotion. If you’ve made such New Year resolution before—Did it work? Well,
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