Daily Inspiration: Meet Lawrence Meyers

Today we’d like to introduce you to Lawrence Meyers.

Hi Lawrence, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
My life makes considerably more sense in retrospect than it ever did while I was living it.

I graduated college with a chemistry degree, suggesting I should do something respectable and predictable. Instead, I became a television writer/producer.

Those years in Hollywood taught me something I didn’t fully appreciate at the time: I was much more interested in stories, people and ideas than I was in following any conventional definition of a career. Which is a good thing, because after 14 years, that “career” ended.

I stumbled into financial journalism, founded a finance company, and then moved into communications and public relations, where I discovered that the same skills involved in creating fictional characters are surprisingly useful when dealing with actual human beings. Or maybe it’s vice-versa.

I’ve advised executives, developed media strategies, and recently calculated that I’ve written approximately two million words across every form of media. Many of these words facilitated communication between worlds that ordinarily don’t have much to say to one another.

And ten years ago, I landed as an audience member in a whirlwind piece of immersive theatre that changed everything. This became a new branch in the tree of my life, and gave me an entirely new purpose which remains to this day, and will likely do so for the long run. Nothing crackles louder or stokes the soul more than living the electric moments of being in a state of play.

The common thread is endless curiosity expressed as story. I like ideas. I like people who are passionate about something. I like people who bring their A-game to living life, exploring, adventuring, saying “Yes, and…” to every possibility, and making something where nothing was before.

In summary: I ignored life’s available maps and somehow ended up exactly where I was supposed to be.

At least for now.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Smooth? HAHAHAHAHA. No.

And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Struggle isn’t an unfortunate interruption of life. It’s where much of life gets its meaning. The things that came easily rarely changed me. The things I had to fight for did.

I was broke when I got my first real break in television. Then I had a career I loved for fourteen years, and one day, it was over. That was harder than being broke. I knew how to solve broke. I didn’t know how to solve losing that which gave me identity.

There was no grand plan. So I kept moving. I explored. I followed things that interested me without knowing where they would lead. Some of those detours became careers.

Marriage and divorce brought a different reckoning. With the end of a marriage, I lost a version of the future I assumed was coming. I had to remake life, and remake myself, without a clear path toward love, happiness or belonging.

I’ve learned the only way to move forward in life is from a place of faith rather than fear. A lot of people live in fear and wonder where faith is. Faith doesn’t always arrive as an answer. Sometimes it arrives as a person.

There have been periods of such deeply-experienced connection with other human beings that the noise falls away and something much deeper becomes visible. The heart is there. The soul is there. Faith is there. Not faith that everything will work out exactly as you want it to, but faith that there is meaning in continuing forward even when you can’t see through the fog.

And then there’s gratitude.

Gratitude is the key to happiness. Human beings are remarkably good at turning yesterday’s miracle into today’s baseline. We focus on what’s missing and stop seeing what’s already there: people we love, work that engages us, second acts we never anticipated, ridiculous adventures, moments of connection. Even some of the scars.

So I try to pursue the hard things. When there’s a void, I try not to fill it with whatever is easiest or most comfortable. I fill it with exploration. With creativity. With people. With things that scare the wits out of me. And definitely with play.

So, no, it hasn’t been a smooth road. It’s been more like a twisty coiling jungle mountainside road in a creaky old bus that has no brakes.

But a perfectly smooth road would have taken me somewhere else.

And I’m grateful it didn’t.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I suppose I’m best known for creating (and living) different forms of storytelling: spoken word, traditional proscenium theater, immersive theater, film and television, books. The medium changes. The impulse behind it really doesn’t.

Joseph Campbell said that people think they’re searching for the meaning of life, when what they’re really seeking is “an experience where we can feel the rapture of being alive.”

That may just be my categorical imperative.

There’s a wonderful moment in “Westworld” when Dr. Ford explains what people actually want from an immersive world. “The guests aren’t looking for a story to tell them who they are. They already know who they are. They here because they want a glimpse of who they could be.”

I think that’s the pinnacle of storytelling.

Stories can entertain, frighten, seduce, disturb. Occasionally it does something more interesting: it opens a door. For a moment, you encounter a possibility in yourself that wasn’t there before…or that you had forgotten was there.

That’s what I chase.

Oddly enough, some of the creative experiences I’m proudest of aren’t things I’ve made (in the traditional sense). They’re experiences I’ve contributed to inside other artists’ work.

In the immersive-theater community, I’m somewhat infamous for playing fearlessly and ferociously. At a recent show, the performers were reminded not to make me an offer they weren’t prepared to follow through on, because I would take it as far as it could possibly go.

The only compliment more humbling and appreciated than that is running into a performer weeks later and having them tell me how much fun THEY had because I was so engaged.

That matters enormously to me. I want to bring out the best in the artists around me and in the people who enter the worlds we create. Art isn’t something one person does to another person. At its best, it’s a circuit. The performer gives something to the guest. The guest gives something back. Each makes the other braver, more playful, more present. Something gets created between them that neither could have made alone, and will never exist again. It comes into being in those few moments, yet its memories will remain forever.

And that is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

As for what sets me apart from other people, I’m not sure I accept the premise.

Life gives us a remarkably convincing illusion that we are separate from one another. I don’t think we are. We’re connected in ways that are mysterious, occasionally maddening, and probably beyond our ability to completely understand.

What I hope I bring to that connection is a refusal to lose my capacity for wonder. I still want to play. I still want to be astonished. I want to meet people who alter the way I see the world and, in whatever small way I can, leave them with something they didn’t have before we met.

And if I can help curate something that allows another person, even for a moment, to feel more curious, more connected, more courageous, more playful….

Then there it is….the rapture of feeling alive.

Alright so before we go can you talk to us a bit about how people can work with you, collaborate with you or support you?
Reach out and say hello, share your ideas, tell me what obstacles you’re running into. I’m always down to help, collaborate, inspire, and listen. You can bring me onto a project to consult on just about anything creative.

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