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Over the last couple of years, I wrote a big book about creating. About different aspects of how people come together to create things. Some are light, like the first entry about coffee, and others are more dense. Would love comments, as I learn how to make this a more streamlined book…..

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Close the door

Please Close the Door Close the door. You: “Hey Jim” Jim: “Hey” You: “C,mon in, close the door.” Jim: “Oh, OK” You: “So….” So. You...

Jan 24, 20182 min read

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Brave Specificity

One discipline that has had the courage to create specificity and to explore the gray areas of the world is science. For example, it used...

Nov 1, 20175 min read

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1000 Songs

You should thank a fellow named Anthony “Tony” Faddell. He has made your life SO MUCH better. In 2000, he had an idea for a device that...

Oct 30, 20171 min read

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Visiting With Your Eyes

We speak in front of people. We pitch ideas or sell things or report or instruct or motivate. We speak in front of people and that is a...

Oct 18, 20175 min read

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The Last Word

OK. This is about this: Listening, truly listening, to the very last thought, the very last word, a person says before forming a...

Sep 28, 20177 min read

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Got It Now Let’s Move On

As thorough as the left critical brain seems to be and as much as it is busy thinking and measuring all of the time, this adult, sensible...

Sep 22, 20173 min read

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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

I’m going to create a metaphor for creative behavior using a scientific principle. I’m doing it because the comparison helps illustrate...

Sep 15, 20173 min read

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Thinking and Creating

There are a hell of a lot of ways to describe the way our brain functions and then to put some labels on them. Here are some different...

Aug 30, 201710 min read

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Tricking the Brain to Play Part One

It’s no small feat to innovate. To create. To get yourself into the mind-set of that kind of thinking, that kind of play. I think it is...

Aug 23, 20174 min read

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You are Creative

Are you creative? Many people know they are, and many others don’t think they are at all. If you are the latter, did you know that your...

Aug 15, 20177 min read

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How to Drink Coffee.

Over the last couple of years, I wrote a big book about creating. About different aspects of how people come together to create things....

Mar 8, 201710 min read

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Future

Please stop asking me. The Future of Improv is being in the Now.

Oct 23, 20141 min read

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Laying Claim to Fame or Acclaim

I am careful not to claim students that have transcended to fame. The reason for this is that I don’t believe that there is a causal...

Feb 11, 201417 min read

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Tips Two

13. Assume competence. It’s easy to hide behind the ideology of a class or a team, but sooner or later you will have to courageously...

Feb 10, 20142 min read

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Tips One

Here are some tips for an improviser in Chicago. Some things to think about or do or consider: (this was first posted in an Annoyance...

Feb 10, 20143 min read

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