Do Something Weird: Smile

Beginning improvisers tend to do negative scenes – scenes in which people are fighting, or just generally have a negative worldview. This impulse comes from fear – fear of expressing something positive and having people laugh at you. Admitting what we like makes us vulnerable. That’s why “coolness” tends to rest on the rejection of something; if you like something, the cool way to like it is to act blase.

Well, as anyone who knows me will attest, I am not cool, and so I am not ashamed to tout this short, feel-good movie, called “Validation,” which I found on the Urban Mindfulness website. It’s worth the 17 minutes it will take you to watch it: