IS THAT A RULE?
🤯 Most actors don’t follow rules, they follow habits they’ve never questioned. And those habits quietly run their entire career.
💡 There’s a huge difference between a boundary, a rule, a norm, a standard, and an expectation. And if you blur them, you either burn out… or play small to “be good.”
🙅♀️ Boundaries are about what YOU do to protect your energy. Not about forcing anyone else to change. If your “boundary” relies on someone else behaving differently, it’s not a boundary. It’s a wish.
📋 Rules are enforced. Norms are inherited. One lives in a policy book, the other lives in “this is just what actors do.” Most of what you treat as “required” is actually just culture you copied without consent.
📈 Standards and expectations are where careers quietly rise or stall. Your standards set your bar. Your expectations decide how you interpret every no, every note, every silence in between.
✅ Boundaries: how I protect my energy
✅ Rules: the logistics I follow
✅ Norms: the habits I question
✅ Standards: the bar I hold myself to
✅ Expectations: my hypotheses, not facts
🔎 Which “rules” are actually just norms you’re finally ready to break?
