This is something I was very specifically taught in improv! There is a game called Freeze Tag where normally you decide to call 'freeze' to end the scene, take the body position of someone in the scene, and start a new scene. I always struggled with not having a good enough idea to start a new scene with.
Then we played a variation where you call freeze and then call someone ELSE to enter the scene. So while I was waiting for a good idea, someone called freeze and called me in. As I walked up, still anxious and clueless about what to do, my hands took the position of the previous person and I IMMEDIATELY knew what to do. It was such a snap change from feeling completely unprepared to having total conviction as if this is what I had planned all along.
As someone who generally still prefers system 2 planning, improv has been great for getting me to tap into my system 1 intuition :)
This is incredible, thank you for sharing Harry!! I think it's a beautiful, concrete example of what it means for "your body to know things" that you don't consciously know, and sort of how to tap into that, or how that can manifest, or how to listen to it.
(I think this is why I've been obsessed with this "fork preferences party" thing the last few days. It feels like an example of like, knowledge you have, that you don't realize you have until you use it https://twitter.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1771524494219210806. I think there's many such cases, but this is one that I can easily guide my friends on, to have them EXPERIENCE the feeling)
This is something I was very specifically taught in improv! There is a game called Freeze Tag where normally you decide to call 'freeze' to end the scene, take the body position of someone in the scene, and start a new scene. I always struggled with not having a good enough idea to start a new scene with.
Then we played a variation where you call freeze and then call someone ELSE to enter the scene. So while I was waiting for a good idea, someone called freeze and called me in. As I walked up, still anxious and clueless about what to do, my hands took the position of the previous person and I IMMEDIATELY knew what to do. It was such a snap change from feeling completely unprepared to having total conviction as if this is what I had planned all along.
As someone who generally still prefers system 2 planning, improv has been great for getting me to tap into my system 1 intuition :)
This is incredible, thank you for sharing Harry!! I think it's a beautiful, concrete example of what it means for "your body to know things" that you don't consciously know, and sort of how to tap into that, or how that can manifest, or how to listen to it.
(I think this is why I've been obsessed with this "fork preferences party" thing the last few days. It feels like an example of like, knowledge you have, that you don't realize you have until you use it https://twitter.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1771524494219210806. I think there's many such cases, but this is one that I can easily guide my friends on, to have them EXPERIENCE the feeling)