Agility

  1. Break out of your routines
  1. Challenge your fears
  1. Generate breakthrough ideas

Techniques from improvisational theater

Vocabulary

Safe space

Curious, open mind, and a willingness to play and experiment

Embracing spontaneity and risk

Acting fearlessly

Harnessing the power of your subconscious mind

Comfort with uncertainty and making mistakes

Open mind to ideas that can flow naturally

Flexibility and responsiveness in unplanned situations

Building Comfort with Flexibility, Uncertainty and Failure

Quotation

Everyone has a plan until they get punched. [-Mike Tyson]

Think of this as a sandbox where you get to play, experiment with some new techniques, and can operate without fear of judgment, either from yourself or others.

Whatever you do is right. These exercises are about the doing, not the outcome.

Let go of judgement

Idea generation vs Idea evaluation

(First Freeze and then) Fight or Flight Response

When relaxed, our mind works magic.

Feeling of Judgement => Feeling of Failure => Not good enough

Failing fast, failing often

Accept Failure