Maxwell Pearce
speaker
317 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Maxwell Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When things go wrong, especially for myself, in my past, I have let the pressure and the reminder, like the self reminder that, oh no, things are going wrong.
That has become like a distraction for me.
And one of the ways that I am able to detach from that is just by being playful.
So I feel like playful improvisation is easily the biggest lesson that I've learned from being a Globetrotter.
More so in the...
like physical sense.
So for example, let's say, you know, like you, most of our lives, we go through from our visual perspective, we go through it on our own two feet.
But what if one day you accidentally tripped and you fell and now you are on the floor, you have a totally different vantage point of what you have been observing and looking at for the last, however long.
I think we should value those moments more because it's a natural opportunity to view things from a very different perspective.
And that is what I deem as being playful.
Whenever those accidents happen, it's like, whoa, I'm in a new space right now.
I don't normally look at these things from this perspective, but let me embrace this.
And I think that's what allows people to playfully improvise because you can, you know, actively scan what's around you and interpret what's around you rather than panicking and just like glossing over, you know, what you're seeing.
For so many years, All Star Weekend's most beloved event was the Duck Contest.
And at one point, it was something that was so ridiculously frowned upon in the game of basketball.
Because two points is two points.
So why are you dunking when you could just lay it up?
It's all worth the same.
But if it wasn't for those people remaining playful and continuing to advance how we dunk the ball, we wouldn't have that in the game.
So I think that's just one of the most prominent examples of
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