Go Ahead, Screw Up. It’s Good for You!

Lately I’d been thinking a lot about that, not because I’d been having fun screwing up my life but because I’d been seeing people stagnate from avoiding mistakes. Then I got a wonderful holiday gift from my On Your Feet friends, Gary, Julie, and...

Could You Be More Specific?

It’s just a thing… -Paul Sills Improv is about moving from the general to the specific—the more specific, the better. This isn’t science so I can’t prove that statement but it is a commonly held belief in the improv world and my experience...

Creativity: What Is It and Who Has It?

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. – Rita Mae Brown Creativity and innovation were the big buzzwords at the MBA Leadership Conference presented by the Graduate Management Admission Council some years ago in...

Focusing on Process

Too much concern about how well one is doing a task sometimes disrupts performance by loading short-term memory with pointless anxious thoughts. – Daniel Kahneman Most of us want to do well at the things we attempt. We want to do them correctly. All our lives...

Fun with Responsibility and Discipline

Improv is to scripted theater as jazz is to classical music, I’ve often said. In both improv and jazz you take the constructs of the classic form (which is not to disregard the essential elements of the African diaspora in jazz) and create something new and...

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