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We are highly social creatures and just as we find it very difficult to answer the question ‘still or sparkling?’ with ‘tap’, it is also difficult to answer the question about ‘three or four’ smoke detectors with with ‘one’. As Nassim Nicholas Taleb remarks, ‘the way a question is phrased is itself information’.
Q: What characters keep coming back?
Flynn: It’s mostly character types, like authority figures or a bad parent. Over the years, if you’re talking about 20 years (of doing improv), I believe I’ve played more than one incompetent doctor. And an unsympathetic parent, I’ve done that, too.
Koechner: I’ve probably played more than one overly confident janitor. Or a hard-charging boss that’s very demanding and incompetent.
Flynn: And I’ve played the bad employee.
Koechner: We’ve all been police officers more than I can count.
Flynn: And we’ve also been the supervisor who calls them into the office: “Get in here, you two!”
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8. Successful risk-takers have selectively high attention to detail. They understand that attention is a scarce resource and think carefully about how to allocate it.
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