Never Stop Learning

I’m Told I Need To Blog More About Improv…

I’ve taught #improv for over a decade - independently by myself, with The People’s Improv Theater, and as a featured #teacher in festivals all over the world - so I didn’t think too much about walking into The Magnet Theater’s Level 1 Musical Improv class AS a #student.

But here’s the thing…comfortability has a fickle way of making you feel overly #confident.

Besides a one-off workshop here or there, I hadn’t been anyone’s student in quite sometime, so I didn’t think much of it. I mean, why would I? I’ve had plenty of students over the years. I know how to be a student. Right???

Wrong.

I felt like a fish out of water. I hadn’t prepared myself for the feeling of #inadequacy, the challenge of doing a thing amongst a group of strangers and NOT being the experienced instructor, or just feeling #SelfConscious about my own choices.

I thought: how were these #choices being received by others? Was I contributing in a valuable way? Am I even good at this? SO many thoughts filled my mind about my capabilities in this thing. And I started feeling so self conscious about everything I was doing.

I walked in thinking it was going to be similar to everything I’ve ever known. I walked in thinking “I got this”. I walked in thinking that I already know how to do Musical Improv, and that this class was merely a formality.

I walked out with a bruised #ego and a trimmed hubris. This is most definitely a new #skill I have not yet #trained in, and that became quite evident to me very quickly!

Never stop #learning.

It’s #painful sometimes especially when we walk in thinking “I got this.” But that’s a good thing! Every now and again we need to get cut down so that we may grow #stronger and with a healthier foundation.

Never stop learning.

You might surprise yourself. You might learn something. 😉