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Turns out, your brain is freestyling daily #TEDTalks
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Improvisation to me is something that
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some people are very fearful of when
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they think about going up and just
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speaking on the fly, but in actuality,
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you're doing it all the time. Uh, a
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conversation that you're having with a
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friend is improvisation. Uh, unless it's
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scripted, and that would be a weird
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friendship, but
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I suppose those do exist. So, I've been
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dealing with improvisation all of my
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life. Uh, I it's hard for me to write
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things down. Ted was so gracious to
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allow me to come up here on the stage
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when they keep asking uh can we see that
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script and it's like I'm sorry I don't I
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don't have that. Um but after I perform
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it then then you'll have that. Um
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so I'd like to show you an element of
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improvisation and I'm going to start by
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doing something like this.
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Now, because this is looping, it gives
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me time to think about what I want to do
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next. So, I think I'll probably add, who
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knows, maybe a basselike thing. So,
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>> let's see if I can remember what a bass
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looks like. Okay, now that'll tell me
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what it sounds like.
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Now, maybe I'd like to subdivide.
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and then I might just stop. So
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improvisation is something that I love
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very much because it is the center of
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existence to me and for me uh that
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allows me to reformat any situation at
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any given time because I do think about
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situations where you might feel
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imprisoned uh in some way. You always
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have your mind and you can always
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recontextualize anything at any given
