Reggie Watts

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TED Talks Daily · Everything is improvisation — including this TED Talk | Reggie Watts · 2 Oct 2024 podcast

But here's a quick summary.

Truth is the intersection of two different things that are constantly colliding for no other reason than the fact that they need to collide in a moment of perception.

Why does perception come into it?

Because that's super cool and no one loves perception more than people who are conscious.

So I've been dealing with improvisation all of my life.

It's hard for me to write things down.

Ted was so gracious to allow me to come up here on the stage when they keep asking, can we see that script?

I'm sorry, I don't have that.

But after I perform it, then you'll have that.

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But they've been so kind to just trust me and let me come up here and do my thing.

And I guess I wanted to explain a little bit about improvisation in the way that I think of it as I'm doing it, which is improvisation to me is something that some people are very fearful of when they think about going up and just speaking on the fly.

But in actuality, you're doing it all the time.

A conversation that you're having with a friend is improvisation, unless it's scripted and that would be a weird friendship.

But I suppose those do exist.

Improvisation is something that I love very much because it is the center of existence to me.

And for me, that allows me to reformat any situation at any given time.

Because I do think about situations where you might feel imprisoned in some way.

Perhaps you did something strange and it wasn't thought of as very cool, and then you end up in prison.

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