Making things up as you go along
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 5:41PM 
Not everything needs to be planned, controlled, organised and structured. Come on .. not everything!
We have an incredible resource in us: our experience, ideas and ingenuity.
The thing is ... we may not trust ourselves to provide from that resource.
Improvisation pioneer and playwright Keith Johnstone, says that we edit, censor and judge our ideas. And so much so, that our ideas may never make it out of our head!
We jump in and criticize, stifling and stopping them from ever reaching the outside world.
They may only ever live in our mind.
It’s as if we don’t trust what we are really capable of.
Sure, we may not have experienced the exact thing or have the exact answer from our history.
But the resources of our mind are flexible, adaptable and malleable. We can make things up. Even as we we go along.
We won’t know what we can do with our ideas unless we trust them.
It may only take a few seconds - just long enough to put them ‘out there’.
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