Rick Andrews

But it is one of those things where anything, where you're in this situation where you feel a little nervous, you don't know how it's going to go.

Someone might ask a question you weren't expecting.

It's a lot of like just managing that moment a little bit.

And I think you're doing that through like an enhanced mindset

set of like listening skills a little bit like just paying attention being in the moment noticing stuff um but also like i think it builds self-confidence in a more genuine way you know it's not about like i don't know pretending to be this confident person it's like improv is a lot of as i'm sure you felt learning it and getting really good at it right it's like you are uh trying your hand at it and not great at it at first but you're doing this context where people are building off of every idea you say no matter how bad it is and people support you so you kind of get to prove your um

your idea's validity to yourself.

I feel like I constantly was having moments where I was like, I don't know what I should do, and then I would say a thing, and your scene partner's like, great.

And then you're like, okay, yeah, that was good.

It's like putting the bumpers up on the bowling alley lane so you can't actually get a gutter ball, and that's what improv feels to me.

Do I wish I had packed more earlier?

Absolutely.

You know, it's not that like you do, you like learn the skill and then you stop like planning for things.

It's just like, no matter how much you plan, you can't control everything.

And so planning is really good, but it's just, it's never going to go exactly how you think it's going to go.

And it's never going to be

And I think some of that also, like, there's a reduction of anxiety.

There's also kind of when you're so anxious and worried about it and it saps you from the present, you're missing out on all these really wonderful moments.

We both have young kids, and I wonder if you felt some of this being with a little kid where they just stop and look at a leaf.

Totally.

And they will sit there and look at a leaf for five minutes.