A few weeks ago, I participated in a weekend introduction to impro workshop with the Sponteneity Shop in London. Impro is a form of theatre where the story is made up by the team of actors as they act it out. Nobody knows where the story will go, because they’re creating it together on the spot, often in collaboration with the audience. Andy had done a workshop with them and it gave him some serious shifts in his thinking and he came home energized and alive after each session. So I was inspired to check it out. I was not prepared for the mind-and-personality-altering experience that it turned out to be (which was appropriate, I guess, since it was impro!) I’d encourage anyone wanting to learn more about their own habitual patterns and stucknesses, learn how to think on their feet, get better at working in a team, develop confidence and become more flexible and resilient to sign up for an impro class – especially Tom Salinsky’s impro class, since he’s an excellent facilitator.
On Thursday I wrote Part 1 of “How to Make Mistakes Well, where I emphasized how you can change the way you THINK about mistakes and failures, in order to get better results (and not feel so crap). Part 2 is about how you can respond to mistakes and failure, with the emphasis on action. If you didn’t read part 1 yet, then go back and start there, because these actions will be hard to follow through on if you haven’t changed the way you think about failure and success.
