Reggie Watts

Anything can be anything at any given time.

You don't have to accept things for face value.

And so because of that, I do things that I really enjoy that may not necessarily exist, but I try to bring them out if I can.

So I'd like to show you an element of improvisation that I would like to show you, as I've just said.

All right, so we're at this station right here, and I'm going to start by doing something like this.

Now because this is looping, it gives me time to think about what I want to do next.

So I think I'll probably add, who knows, maybe a bass-like thing.

So let's see if I can remember what a bass looks like.

What is interesting about improvisation is that you can constantly do it all the time.

So if you're ever in a situation where you really hate where you're working, just realize that you're constantly improvising.

Even when you have to go to reach a pencil for a pencil on the desk, you're still thinking about how you're going to pick up that pencil.

Sometimes it's a huge ordeal.

You have to actually lift your hand from where it was resting on your lap, and you have to avoid the desk, because if you just directly raised your hand, you would just come in contact with some wood.

and then you'd have to move around that and navigate it, and then you'd have to grab that pencil and know where it is and generally the feel of it so that you're familiar with it and you know that you're grabbing the right thing if you happen to not be looking at it while you're just kind of gracefully handing someone something from another desk.

So with that, I would like to demonstrate how that comes into being by doing this.

So this is what I expect all of you guys to be doing at the end of this session.

All the things that you're hearing, just remember them and reflect them back in a way that you think is creative, as though you've been given a box of Legos that have been dismantled and no longer a part of any particular package that you bought previously.

So the instructions make no longer any sense.

And just dump them on the ground and see what you can come up with.

Now, because of that principle, I have adapted three out of six of the former principles that I used to talk about at TED Talks, and this is my seventh TED Talk.