Essence

Introversion aside, I’ve tried to be judicious with how much time I’ve spent around actors.  Which may be why I had never heard of Sam Christensen until Dan Harmon made a couple of passing references to Christensen’s concept of an actor’s “essence” which, as I have gleaned, is something about one’s core qualities—revealed by the compliments and insults one has gotten over their whole life—that are immediately apparent to other people (and which, presumably, can be leveraged for branding.)  Or something.  I’m sure Gene Cousineau could explain it better