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Peele: One of the breakthrough moments for me was realizing that, you know, you can take all the classes you want and learn and practice and get all the advice from other people, but it’s really like learning an instrument that has never existed until you were born. No one can tell you how to play that instrument. There’s a part of that journey tha

Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

Teachers should be guides of the learning journey, not authoritative instructors ready to dish out abuse or punishment when the child expresses non-conforming behaviors.

Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking

Last year, I met the guy who discovered and advised Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and just about every other famous comedian. He utterly blew my mind with how he guided them early on in their careers to find their “signature move.” Here’s everything he shared 👇

Stew Fortier x.com

From the very beginning Winnicott would represent himself as less knowing than Klein as an analyst; and he would stress the importance, as an analyst, of being able to tolerate not-knowing.

Adam Phillips • Winnicott

As soon as the clown character was real, open, vulnerable, breathing, and feeling in the moment, they were hysterical and a joy to watch.

Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room

better student achievement is correlated with greater Internality of teachers.16

Stephen Nowicki • Choice or Chance

Improvisation for the Theater by Viola Spolin.

Daniel H Pink • To Sell Is Human

“For an actor, it’s the difference between planning how you’re going to behave, which looks like acting, and finding your performance in the other person’s eyes, which makes you respond to one another—and which looks like life.”

-Alan Alda

Poets and clowns have always risen up against the oppression of creative thought by dogma. They expose literal-mindedness with metaphor. They demonstrate the follies of seriousness in a framework of humor. Their intimate wonder dissolves certainties, banishes fears, and undoes paralysis.