When you look at a table, your mind automatically labels it, “That’s a table.” But is it? Yes. But is that the best and only name for that object? Break out of that unconscious thinking, and see it for what it really is… a higher floor. “Pick that stuff off the dirty floor, and put in on the higher, cleaner floor,” you’d say. And a countertop? What’s with that? It doesn’t even count numbers, let alone be the top at it. It’s basically another floor. A food floor. Or “foofloo.” And a floor? That’s clearly a “blorg.”
What’s the first thing you’re renaming?
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This series was inspired by people asking me “How do I keep doing improv?” after a corporate improv workshop. There are, of course, improv classes, more workshops, team building exercises you can do with your group, but these games are specifically ones you can do on your own to practice “Yes and” and get into a state of play.