"Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Improv"

[acrouch]

One of our recent students wrote a nice blog entry on the Psychology Today website:

Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Improv
Have fun, embrace failure, and say yes to life.

I took an improv comedy class recently to add more fun and spontaneity to my life, and I got lots of those things, but I wasn't expecting it to feel so much like therapy. In a way, though, improv is just like play therapy for adults. It provides valuable counter-conditioning to help people face not just the pressures of performing spontaneous comedy in front of other people, but the pressures of of life in general. Here are some of the lessons every improvisor is taught, and every person should know.

Click here for the entire article.

[starkserious]

GReat article. Thanks for sharing it! I just twittered it.