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Jaak Panksepp concluded something similar in Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions, where he wrote, “One thing is certain, during play, animals are especially prone to behave in flexible and creative ways.”
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
In his wonderful book, Anything You Want, Derek Sivers shares the following story of learning to sing from a great coach named Warren Senders: For each lesson, I’d bring in one song I was trying to improve. First, I’d sing it for him as written. Then he’d say, “OK—now do it up an octave.” “Uh... up an octave? But I can’t sing that high!” “I don’t
... See moreDevin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
In improv, the entire cast is at risk and needs to work together to continue a conversation, to put off the finality of a scene until the last possible moment. Bill encouraged ensembles and
Jonathan Rosenberg • Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
Not every storyteller agrees with my strategies, but every student who has followed my instruction has become an effective, entertaining, successful storyteller.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
Gallimore and Tharp recorded and coded 2,326 discrete acts of teaching. Of them, a mere 6.9 percent were compliments. Only 6.6 percent were expressions of displeasure. But 75 percent were pure information: what to do, how to do it, when to intensify an activity. One of Wooden's most frequent forms of teaching was a three-part instruction where he
... See moreDaniel Coyle • The Talent Code
How do you get ideas for stories or improv? There are two states we create from: the clown and the editor. The clown allows you to experiment and generate ideas without a filter. The editor comes in later to find the gems and do cleanup. But you can’t be the clown and the editor at the same time.
Karen Eber • The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories that Inform, Influence, and Inspire
Winnicott would occasionally make psychoanalysis sound curiously like entertainment.
Adam Phillips • Winnicott
David Wright • Just a moment...
The informal leader of this whole crew, of course, was Sigmund Freud.