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A few years ago, I attended the 40th anniversary party of my friend Nick.
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As part of the celebration, he hired an improvisation comic strip, and we all had to participate in learning improvisation comedy.
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(I just felt the collective thrill of all the introverts by reading this newsletter).
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We started to throw up scenarios and funny scenes in which participate, and we learned the most important improvisation rule: “Yes and”.
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Two simple words and the foundation of all improvisation comedy:
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Whenever someone offers a scene, a sentence or a situation, the only acceptable answer is: “Yes and”
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- Yes: acceptance! I accept and recognize that whatever the situation, whatever the absurd, to be true.
- And: Build! Like a tennis match, after your improvisation partner hit you the ball, your work is to retaliate it! Based on the situation or the scene.
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For example, if your improvisation partner says: “I am a space pirate”, your answer could be:
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- “Yes, and I am the space police, you are in a state of arrest!”
- “Yes, and I’m a first companion looking for a new crew, it’s perfect!”
- “Yes, and my name is Captain Hook, welcome to Pirates Anonymous.”
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The “yes and” rule is so crucial, because there is nothing worse than a bad improvisation partner!
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A bit like Liam Neeson This short sketch With Ricky Gervais, (I laugh each time):
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The yes and the rule for life
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As a former “gifted child” who has an exaggerated who has the rather negative inner critic, I worked hard to incorporate “yes and” in my life.
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The “yes” part is built around acceptance, which I have spent the last two years working to kiss.
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Discover my tests passed on Acceptance And WABI SABI For more.
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This is the “and” part on which I concentrated recently.
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As Dr. Kristen Neff underlines in his book CompassionLife is complex, just like humans:
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“The judgment defines people as bad against good and tries to capture their essential nature with simplistic labels.
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The discrimination of wisdom recognizes complexity and ambiguity. »»
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Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Things are never as good or bad as our brains think either.
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So, despite the voice in our heads who wants to judge everything in black or white terms, yes or no, good or good … We must remember that life is a beautifully complicated mess.
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The author F. Scott Fitzgerald said one day:
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The test of a first -rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposite ideas in the mind at the same time, and to always keep the ability to function.
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It is necessary, for example, to be able to see that things are desperate while being determined to do them otherwise.
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This is my task for you today.
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Is there a part of your life that seems black or white, and could rather use a little complexity?
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Nothing is as simple as it seems.
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Life is difficult and change is difficult. And you are a good person trying.
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Which means there is hope. And Hope is warlike emotion.
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Also, go look Sketch Liam Neeson.
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You are welcome.
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-Teve
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