June 2011
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“If you wait around for an opportunity to come up, it’s not coming. It isn’t,...”
– Thomas Lennon (as quoted in this article)
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This is Your Brain on Improv →
Fascinating, SHORT article on what’s happening in our brains when we improvise.
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Al Gore, Improviser?
At the Games for Change (G4C) festival earlier today, the one and only Al Gore noted that research has shown that “play is important in all mammals.” New mission: Get Al Gore to take an improv workshop. (Think Improv’s very own Amanda Hirsch will be hosting the G4C awards ceremony Wednesday. Woot!)
“We listen very consciously at times with our ears but we also hear and listen...”
– Stephen Vitiello (via poptech)
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Your Decisions Write the Script
“I don’t have a master plan or goal to leave a specific mark. I doubt I’m smart enough, or have enough foresight, for that sort of thing. But I do think that every time someone makes a better decision, everyone gains, at least a tiny bit.” - Chris Chablis via PopTech
» YES. Every decision you make writes the world’s script.
Have An Opinion At All Times →
Will wrote the post below about improv, but it’s important to take a position in life, too. I took a class in college where the teacher made us sit around the room according to our position on the previous night’s reading assignment. Did we think the character was a bigot? Sit by the window. If we changed our minds, we could move. Back and forth we went. This is the key to intellectual...
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“But the point is this: It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that...”
– Conan O’Brien reveals Tonight Show heartbreak in Dartmouth University speech | Mail Online (via sarah-anne)
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And a good morning to you.
Exciting news this morning: Vox Pop, a 2-person musical improv team featuring our very own Jordan Hirsch, was accepted into the Del Close Improv Marathon. Woot!
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“The human race has one really effective weapon, & that is laughter.”
– Mark Twain
Be generous.
Onstage, the generous players are the ones we all want to do scenes with again and again.
They’re the ones who are the most fun.
The Harvard Business Review opines on why we should be generous at work, too.
“Integrity is living up to what you declare, in an improv scene and in a life.”
– Mick Napier
