3 Seconds

A short one to end the month:

I can tell within roughly three to five second whether someone can act. No one suddenly gets better over three acts, they just get less bad or we become desensitized to their poor form.

There is something immediately available to test, even within that short space of time.

Three seconds.

And if I can do it, so can your auditors, in all their many forms.

What I see immediately is not a magic or talent, but an ease with which things are done.

In a bad performance, I immediately see signs of someone over-doing it. I see tension and I see the fakery of sentiment, like lies dripping from every moment.

Three seconds. This is all visible in three short seconds. So is excellence.