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his popular TED Talks on creativity, Sir Ken Robinson emphasizes the importance of taking risks and making mistakes. “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original,” he explains. “We’re running education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. We’re educating people out of their creative capacities.”
Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick, Ken Robinson
During an improv performance for one of the dorms, a freshman had volunteered this “helpful” suggestion: “In a bowling alley with a chicken.” We had asked the audience to fill in the blanks: “In a ___, with a ___.” This improv game is a setup which typically results in pairing odd bedfellows. You almost always get “in a firehouse with a wildebeest” or “in a rowboat with a broken toaster oven.” These suggestions arise from two assumptions, one of them mistaken. The first is that all we are here to see is comedy and the second, that pairing “unlikely” objects will produce the biggest challenge and result in the funniest scene.
Improv Wisdom
Patricia Ryan Madson
At its root all language has the character of metaphor, because no matter what it intends to be about it remains language, and remains absolutely unlike whatever it is about. This means that we can never have the falcon, only the word “falcon.” To say that we have the falcon, and not the “falcon,” is to presume again that we know precisely what it is we have, that we can see it in its entirety, and that we can speak as nature itself. The unspeakability of nature is the very possibility of language.
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
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