Meet Sina Tadayon

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Sina Tadayon. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Sina below.

Alright, so we’re so thrilled to have Sina with us today – welcome and maybe we can jump right into it with a question about one of your qualities that we most admire. How did you develop your work ethic? Where do you think you get it from?

Work ethic, grit, determination, rah rah hoo rah rah. I’d like to think I have decent rah rah hoo rah rah. The question is, where do I get it from? Unlike a lot of people whose work ethic comes from a source of prescribed agency or will, mine is derived from something more like a need—something to satiate a desire that runs parallel to hunger and thirst.

We all have things we want and things we need, but at times our baseline biomechanical structures take a want and hold it as a need. That’s what’s happened here. I’ve obsessively and compulsively tied the meaning and sustainability of my life to success in the ever-so-feeble nature of the entertainment industry.

To succeed is to live. To fail is to die.

Pretty deep, huh? Bet you weren’t expecting that shit.

But I’m trying to do the opposite. With the help of my roommate/manager, I’m trying to stop the painstaking need to network constantly, listen to lectures nonstop, or eat like Chris Hemsworth training for Thor. I’m trying to deduce my work ethic into something healthier.

So, to answer your question: I get my work ethic from a miscommunication of serotonin receptors in my brain. And I’m trying to reduce it—turn my work ethic into a vibe ethic.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

I, Sina Tadayon, am hoping to carve out a career as an actor, screenwriter, public speaker, and psychology professor. Hoping is the key word here. At my day job, I work front desk at a health and longevity clinic to sustain my development toward one or all of those careers I mentioned above.

As an actor, I am auditioning and looking for representation to get access to more opportunities to audition.

As a screenwriter, I am writing scripts to sell and have started developing a movie I plan to write, act in, and secure financing for.

As a public speaker, I try to find outlets to talk “publicly.” If I can’t find them, I yell really loud at bars or other public places so people can hear me.

As for becoming a psychology professor, I am working on getting accepted into a program to further my education, which could potentially lead to a teaching career.

Many seeds are being planted. Maybe one day they will sprout, or maybe they won’t. In the meantime, I’m okay with checking people in and out.

See that – that’s what a vibe ethic is.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Well, I can’t answer that entirely, given the fact that I’m still on said journey. What I would recommend thus far is the following:

1. Plan: Where do you want to be in 5 years, 10 years? What will you be doing? Are you single or married? What kind of diet do you have? Do you live in a home or an apartment? What hobbies do you do? Be specific—the more specific, the better. That’s not to say none of it can change, but to start moving toward anything, you have to know where you’re going.

2. Take risks: Self-explanatory.

3. Find like-minded friends: We’re social creatures. You can’t do any of this stuff alone.

Before we go, maybe you can tell us a bit about your parents and what you feel was the most impactful thing they did for you?

Having money—not like rich rich money, but enough to give me the opportunity to even have a dream and to support me in times when that dream feels less and less probable.

I could lie to you, babble on about some prescribed hardship, but in reality, it’s supposed to be hard. And if you have more support behind you, the easier it is to digest the hard. End of story.

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