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Originally Posted by JeffS  Interesting thing to emphasize here. I read a book called "Improv Wisdom" not too long ago ...apparently one rule of improv (acting, comedy, etc.) is to always accept the premises of others. So if your improv partner says, for instance, "that is a HUGE piece of cheese," you respond as if you, too, see the cheese, and build on the idea. It's "against the rules" to make like your partner is crazy, that there's no cheese there.
Anyway, the book extrapolates from that that it's a good life habit to "always say yes." (Within reason, of course.) If somebody invites you to a party...go. If someone wants you to help them with something, agree. You get the idea. It's really easy to decide that there are certain things that we just don't do (trust me, I'm expert at saying no to things for that reason!), but why not try? |
Openness to new things has always been one of my core values. I was planning to have a trial "A trial of trying something new everyday for 30 days", but as this is what I was doing already (or at least was too easily able to do), I decided to make the trial a bit more challenging.
The strange thing is that even if I am always willing to try new ideas, I'm always careful about meeting new people. Maybe this could be done with a later trial...
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Originally Posted by Scott Bird Nice one - I hope there are more days like that one. |
I'd like the score to settle somewhere around +3 instead... +4 and +5 are extremely rare experiences, and I don't know what a prolonged exposure to them would do. (Note: the Mood score is a "weighted average", not necessarily the mood of the time of the writing.)