Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up | 
|  | | | Title: | Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up | | Author: | Patricia Ryan Madson | | Publisher: | Harmony/Bell Tower | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 03 May, 2005 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1400081882 / 9781400081882 | | List Price: | $16.95 | | You Save: | $5.42 | | Amazon Price: | $11.53 | |
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In an irresistible invitation to lighten up, look around, and live an unscripted life, a master of the art of improvisation explains how to adopt the attitudes and techniques used by generations of musicians and actors.
Let’s face it: Life is something we all make up as we go along. No matter how carefully we formulate a “script,” it is bound to change when we interact with people with scripts of their own. Improv Wisdom shows how to apply the maxims of improvisational theater to real-life challenges—whether it’s dealing with a demanding boss, a tired child, or one of life’s never-ending surprises. Patricia Madson distills thirty years of experience into thirteen simple strategies, including “Say Yes,” “Start Anywhere,” “Face the Facts,” and “Make Mistakes, Please,” helping readers to loosen up, think on their feet, and take on everything life has to offer with skill, chutzpah, and a sense of humor.
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Customer Reviews:
• Planning Is Overrated 21 July, 2008
This is a very insightful journey of transition from a person who planned everything down to the last detail into a person who learned that just showing up is more important.
John Crewdson
www.camptaichi.com
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1NLZQTZ5IHK2U
• Brilliant 21 November, 2007
I loved this book. I bought it as an aid for designing training, but it's really a manifesto for living. It is indeed full of wisdom - read it, enjoy it and use it. And just show up.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AL4X9FNU6MNNW
• It's Not About The Improv! 29 September, 2008
Don't worry. If you've never: met a professional improviser, yourself taken any improv classes, attended an improv show, and/or didn't even realize that Improv was anything besides a word meaning, `movement that is created spontaneously,' this book will still be relevant to your life. 'Improv Wisdom' is much less about the art of improv than it is about the art of living.
The idea behind Improv Wisdom is simple: learn to listen to others (really listen) and to trust yourself (and your ideas). Yeah, sure, you've heard that before - but you haven't heard it in this simple, brilliant, and compelling way. Divided into 13 chapters, each driven by a `maxim' for doing good improv (read: for living a good life), Improv Wisdom provides a roadmap for finding the way to that ideal state of being, the one in which you can understand and appreciate people the right way and at the right times, live in the moment and love yourself, but in a completely understated and non-cheesy way. Each maxim is summarized, explained, and supported with examples - all score top marks for clarity and relevance. Patricia Madson's voice is warm, encouraging, and laced with humor. Reading the book, you begin to feel as though she, if you were perfect, would be the voice your subconscious mind, offering you help, direction and maternal support whenever you needed it most.
This is not a self-help book, but if you pay attention it will probably change you, and it will change you for the better. It was, for me, perhaps the most formative and developmentally important book that I read during my four years of undergraduate education. Senior year - when I was trying to figure out exactly who I was, what I believed in, where I was going, how I would make it through job interviews and indecision and the ambiguous future - I started reading it, and by the time I'd finished the first chapter, I knew that this book would provide some guidance. And it did. It taught me to listen to my subconscious and it gave me the direction, courage, and reason I needed to become - and to become happily - a better, stronger and more complete version of myself.
Read it.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3HP0Q1J1JNOEL
• "say Yes" To This Book... 02 March, 2008
How many self-help books have you read that leave you shaking your head saying - well, that was 3-4 hours of my life that I can't get back? (I have read many!) You won't find yourself saying that with this book. Patricia Ryan Madson offers up 13 strategies on how to lead an inspired and satisfying life by facing challenges in an unscripted manner. The book is beautifully written. It is filled with anecdotes and helpful techniques that will enhance your everyday life. Where was Ms. Madson when I needed her in college?
1) Say Yes
2) Don't Prepare
3) Just Show Up
4) Start Anywhere
5) Be Average
6) Pay Attention
7) Face the Facts
8) Stay on Course
9) Wake up to the Gifts
10) Make Mistakes, Please
11) Act Now
12) Take Care of Each Other
13) Enjoy the Ride
- Reviewed by customer ID: AACEZE2YPTJ5D
• It Does Indeed Provide Wisdom! 26 July, 2008
This book is a fun read and useful in a number of ways- personal growth, exercises to use alone or with others. i never realized how much life coaching uses improv exercises until i read this book. It is concise and packed with goodies.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3JGN781O93JRM
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