A speaker uses improv rules to teach students and athletes collaboration. The core idea: say yes and build on your partner's ideas, support each other, and make your teammate look like a genius. Failure isn't a mistake; stopping is.
We do a really good job a lot, right, of pointing out what everyone else is doing wrong instead of pausing and going, okay, what is my role? What do I need to do? The reality is improvisation, there is no wrong answer. There's no mistake until you get— until you basically stop and get stuck in the mistake. As long as you keep rolling and building off of each other, there is no mistake. All right, we're gonna turn the mistake into genius. So no matter what you say, there is no wrong answer as long as your partner has your back. When your mindset is on the court, when I go on the stage, my mindset is my goal is to make my partner look like a genius. That's my goal, is to make my partner look like a genius. It's my job, Josh. My job is to make you look good. So no matter what you say, I got your back. No matter what you say, I'm going to yes and it and just support what you said even if it doesn't make any sense. The only thing you can't say is I don't know because I can't work with I don't know. I want you guys to think of 3 qualities. Think of 3 qualities that are most important to you. So if I ask your coach what 3 qualities represent you as a player, I want you to think, what 3 qualities would you want your coach to say? The first lesson you need to do is you need to get out of your comfort zone. And what we want the kids to do all the time is continuously step outside of their comfort zone. Because as we know, we know it as adults more than anything. The only time that we really grow is when we're forced to grow outside of our comfort zone, or when we choose to grow outside of our comfort zone. So what we want with the kids is to get them actually embracing failure because they're stepping outside their comfort zone. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Fail, fail! Hey, welcome back to Red Sox TV. Hey. They changed the camera on us, John. The camera is on you. There you go. We're here at Mud Socks TV. We're taking a break from our winter conditioning. All right, let me say that one more time. Failing doesn't make you a failure. Failing makes you a learner. I talked about getting outside of your comfort zone. You cannot fail unless you get outside of your comfort zone. Now you've won— tell us how many majors you've won. 75. 75. It doesn't even seem humanly possible that you've won 75 majors with a There's only 4 a year, and you're only— you're 19? Or 18? So mathematically, you've been winning majors since the time you were like 2. What an amazing commercial break. Welcome back to American Stairs TV. And on the commercial break, unexpected guest. We went out into the foyer, and there she was. And you were— as you were out in the foyer, which I can only imagine that you were looking for For a new inspiration for a new art piece, what were you looking at out there that really caught your attention that has you inspired right now? The drawers, the building, the stairs. That our society is built around better stuff, better life. Better coach, better life. Better teacher, better life. Better school, better— instead of us going back to, what am I believing that is preventing me from responding like this compared to feeling like a victim? That's what we need to do. We need to be willing to look at the scary parts of our school that are hard to us, the scary parts of our life that are hard to us, And to be willing to be comfortable in the uncomfortable so that we can say yes and to it and become excellent. 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3.
