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Last Saturday, I took an improv workshop with Djibril Traoré. He said the above: “Don’t be prepared; be available,” and attributed it to Keith Johnston.
Now, this specifically relates to the “yes, and” concept of improv. You cannot plan everything out because you don’t know what will come your way. If you do too much planning, you end up with a supremely unfunny scene because the ensemble isn’t working together–they are each working toward a different end.
This applies to other types of communication as well. There are many applications to this principle and today we’ll talk about investigations.
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