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Sympathetic Disagreement A good technique to use during an improv argument is “sympathetic disagreement.” This refers to tone. A character says something, and your character disagrees. But while disagreeing, your character says he or she understands why the other person feels that way. In other words: yes-and the accusation, even as you disagree with it. Something like, “Look, I get it, but….”
How to Be the Greatest Improviser on Earth
Will Hines
Speaker 0: that you can approach your artistic craft, but also there are some core, um, truths that seem to be linked through everyone's creative practice. And one of the things and this is actually backed up by modern cognitive science is you can really only give about 3 to 4 hours a day of that deep creative work, um, to your craft. And so it's not something like You can have a full time job where you work at Chipotle and you wrap motherfucking burritos and you can still give an hour or two to your true life's calling. And I've been doing this, you know, since I was like, 21. And no matter what job I've had, no matter what my obligations have been,
Mind Meld 236 | New Year, New Ethos With Erick Godsey
THIRD EYE DROPS
“You want to know how I did something like jump the Great Wall on a fractured ankle,” he says. “I can’t really answer that. All I can tell you is what I already told you: When I’m pushing the edge, skating beyond my abilities, it’s always a meditation in the zone.” This, then, is our answer. This is our mystery: a rare and radical state of consciousness where the impossible becomes possible.
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler
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