But the point is, if I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk.
And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic and personal experiences, and that I not only felt completely free, I also met my husband during the filming.
Similarly, I just directed my first film, A Tale of love in Darkness and was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me.
The film is a period film, completely in Hebrew, in which I also act with an eight-year-old child as a co-star.
All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of as I was completely unprepared for them.
But my complete ignorances to my own limitations looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair.
Once here, I had to figure it all out, and my belief that I could handle these things, contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so, was half the battle.
The other half was very hard work.
The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career.
Now clearly I’m not urging you to go perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so.