5 Things You Should Do To Become a Thought Leader In Your Industry, With Filmmaker Dante Tomaselli

Meditate. Turn off the volume on those taunting voices deep in the pit your psyche telling you it’s impossible to achieve your creative goal. While it’s true that you might not ever completely delete these signals from your internal software — you need to try. Otherwise you give those ugly voices shape and they start to crawl around in your brain like little black spiders. The power of positive visualization is uncanny and it’s really the first step to opening the gate. I remember as a little boy lying in bed, sighing, thinking to myself, ‘I want to be a movie director but it will never happen. Not in the cards.’ I would put myself down…I’m too shy, too this — too that. Then one day, while visiting my sister’s home in South New Jersey, I found myself meditating in her attic, surrounded by…