Just leave it.

If you’re attacking a problem and can’t budge it would you try just leaving it. 

Giving it time.

‘Sleep on it.’ That’s what we used to say back home. 

Opposites create interesting possibilities. Seems passive, but it’s active.

Let it breathe and let your mind – which you like – do its work. The mind will work and if there is a problem to be solved it’s your mind that is going to do the solving.

The director says, ‘Moving on.’ but you’re not happy with the scene. Just leave it and go on to the next scene. That’s how we make TV and movies. When the directors’ happy that’s good enough - leave it.                                                                                                                                                     
Same in acting class. The coach gives you an exercise, you find it difficult - leave it - come to it again next class.

If the issue involves another person – an agent, a director, a fellow actor, casting – then you also give them time and space. Time to settle down. Reconsider, think, forget, and maybe realize or apologize.

When you injure yourself you often just leave it to heal. The body will heal as it is always going back to stasis – or balance, equilibrium. Let the active ingredient of time heal what’s bothering you.

An active way to solve a question is to leave it.