How to be yourself

We often think that it’s virtuous to be a “good” person. But the way in which we are good changes given the circumstance.

What we really are is weird, flawed, and full of human-ness.

It’s better this way.

In order to really get good at their craft, improvisers drop the awareness that the audience is watching and judging. They have to. The quality of their improv depends on it.

It’s mind blowing how hard it is to accept this. It’s so challenging that I even developed a mantra that I often recite to myself when my mind starts cycling through embarrassing and cringy memories.

It goes like this:

I am allowed to make mistakes.

I can make multiple mistakes per day, and I am still worthy of love and respect.

I can make my life a practice of making errors, blunders, and left turns.

And I can grow alongside the rest of the people in my life.

Here’s a little typing test for the corne keyboard. I am indeed becoming more proficient with it. It feels like I do have to move around a bit less and I can now see why people 12