Reply to Re: Rob's Viewpoints #2 - What's your approach?
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This sounds like a similar message to a great little book I read this year by Patricia Ryan Madson called Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up. It was about using the principles of improv theater in everyday life. I read it because I wanted to see what could be said for the idea of deliberately not planning things, since planning is normally how I try to handle life. I loved the whole book, and I think it could work for a lot of things, although she admits it doesn't apply to everything. Obviously you want your surgeon to be prepared.
Anyway, the overlap with your post is that with an improvisational approach, you stay flexible and can handle a lot of different things that happen without worrying too much about them. The no-failure mindset is a good starting point, but Madson's book fills out the approach with a lot of other good principles, which I'd have to look up later. I haven't put it all together in my own life yet, but this thread reminds me that I want to try that.
Anyway, the overlap with your post is that with an improvisational approach, you stay flexible and can handle a lot of different things that happen without worrying too much about them. The no-failure mindset is a good starting point, but Madson's book fills out the approach with a lot of other good principles, which I'd have to look up later. I haven't put it all together in my own life yet, but this thread reminds me that I want to try that.
