Sketchplanations - A weekly explanation in a sketch
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Sketchplanations - A weekly explanation in a sketch
- When brainstorming, improvising, jamming with others, you’ll go much further and deeper if you build upon each contribution with a playful “yes — and” example instead of a deflating “no — but” reply.
from 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice by kk.org
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Sketchplanations - A weekly explanation in a sketch
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- Playfulness makes it easier to adapt the rules of the game to meet everyone’s needs in the situation. You might decide to invent a new rule, change a rule—or play a new game altogether.
from Be Sincere—Not Serious
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Improve Your Conversations: Think on Your Feet, Witty Banter, and Always Know What to Say with Improv Comedy Techniques (2nd Edition) (How to be More Likable and Charismatic Book 13)
by Patrick King
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In contrast, the improvisational spirit lives inside that gap, and it can be surprisingly full of ingenuity and joy even when the situation is dire. As something we share with our nonhuman brethren, the capacity to form new responses is how you know you’re alive, today, here. So when my mum says, “whatever happens, happens,” what I hear is not resi
... See morefrom Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You by Jenny Odell
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Rules can create an imaginary, transient world that is actually more playful than your everyday gathering. That is because everyone realizes that the rules are temporary and is, therefore, willing to obey them.
from The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker