The other day I read an article about auditioning and it contained a classic Steve Jobs quote "A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” This is when it struck me how similar what I do at my desk all day is to what I do when I work on a character.
At my day job I am the product owner for the home page of a large website. Shortest version of "um so what do you really do" is I set the strategy & feature roadmap for that page. This means I spend my time analyzing data and doing research. I assimilate all this information and then I make choice about what I am going to do. I have to absolutely commit to these choices that I make about my product to in order to be successful.
We talk about choices a lot in acting; making choices about your character's behavior, position, voice, physicality, etc. Your choices are informed by the text (and research as required for a role) and you have to commit to them.
It was just a bit of a shocking realization that what I do manage a product is really actually quite similar to what I do to create a character.
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