Rick Andrews

They want to watch you guys play in this fully present way.

And also, you're freed up to do that through the support of it.

I don't know that I have it in me to do that by myself, to just be... You know people have your back.

And they're going to make whatever you do look good.

It just creates this huge space where you actually feel like you can't fail or it's kind of like not even on you to figure out like why it's good.

It's like other people are going to do that job.

And I think that that's a huge part of it is the like rapport and the trust and like the corporate term of like psychological safety.

I think that that is like a lot of what improv is building.

Yeah, it is really nice to be in a supportive context.

I remember going back to my college improv team, like reunion show.

And there are a bunch of folks there who I had improvised with when I was a freshman and they were seniors.

I really only did improv with them for one year.

And they were now, this was 10 years after I graduated.

So it was, everybody was full adults.

And I hadn't seen people yet in a long time.

And it was that thing of like, you kind of expect, oh, it's that person.

Then you're kind of hanging out and you're like, oh, we actually don't know each other that well at all because I haven't talked to you in 10 years.

And then when we did the show, it kind of felt like no time had passed.

Just so weird.

Because it was like, oh, yeah, I actually didn't know these people in this like social way that much.