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“War is the ultimate finite game. Religion is the ultimate infinite game,” said Jim Carse last night. “Evil does exist: it is when an infinite game is absorbed utterly in a finite game. All evil is an attempt to eliminate evil.”
SALT Summaries, Condensed Ideas About Long-Term Thinking
Stewart Brand
Repetition stabilizes and deepens attention. Rituals are characterized by repetition. Repetition differs from routine in its capacity to create intensity.
The Disappearance of Rituals
Byung-Chul Han and Daniel Steuer
I, You, We A good shortcut to knowing, caring, and saying is to make the scene about the people in the scene. A common error for newer improvisers is when two characters spend the whole scene talking about a third character who isn’t there. The spouse, the boss, the crazy friend. It feels natural, but a scene can’t really get started until the people in it talk to each other about each other. In real life, we rarely talk to each other about each other. We’re scared to do it, or it feels rude. But for our improv scenes, we have to get comfortable speaking directly. A good exercise to practice this is to do two-person scenes in which each person must start their lines with “I,” “you,” or “we.” Do this until you feel the scene has found a game. Making a scene about the characters we can see generally makes the scene more powerful.
How to Be the Greatest Improviser on Earth
Will Hines
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