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I have a dilemma. Last night while reading the book, Impro, I came
across an insightful comment that I highlighted, "The improvisor (story
teller) has to be like a man walking backward. He sees where he has
been, but he pays no attention to the future. His story can take him
anywhere, but he must still 'balance' it, and give it shape, by
remembering incidents that have been shelved and reincorporating them."
Keith Johnstone's point is that great stories have interrelated ideas,
connected… Continue

One of my improv teachers taught us that while waiting to be part of an improv scene, we all must stand with our weight forward, on the balls of our feet, ready for our opportunity to jump in. If we were to stand flat footed, or worse with the weight on our heels, we would be slow to respond to opportunities to enter a scene. Hyper awareness is a necessary reality for good improvisors and I think in life too.

As I consider my life and my work with organizations as an applied improv prac… Continue

"One, one, one." Mother Teresa answered when asked how she helped so many people in Calcutta. "I begin, you begin, one, one, one."

I begin this blog one word at a time. I have nothing profound to say, no insightful comment, no incredible insight, and that is refreshing and freeing to me. The pressure to be creative is not there. Instead I live into the reality that Keith Johnstone would say to his actors, "Be boring! Be average!" So here I am, an average guy with an average blog with a… Continue