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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heathen72" data-source="post: 964773" data-attributes="member: 7029">It might well, depending the answer I am looking for.Wuss! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Seriously though - I do want a black or white response, because I believe that there is something to be obtained for such an answer.  It comes from my experiences as an improvisor - Some improvisors always seem to make positive choices and the scenes in which they are involved always seem to flow effortlessly into the future. They appear very 'talented' and 'brave'. Others, however, seem to have all the right skills, but time and again the scenes in which they participate seem to stymie. Often, this is simply because they habitually make 'negative' decisions i.e; decisions that keep them safe. They aren't necessarily aware of this, however, and if you were to address any individual decision, they would come up with lots of good reasons as to why they made that choice. Alternatively, they might even try to make a different decision in future. But they wouldn't understand the underlying reason for making that choice (fear of the future, refusal to be altered, etc) and would still struggle.Sometimes, you have to keep things simple (i.e; black and white). If I'm in the middle of an improvised scene, I can't afford to be thinking "I must not do these ten things. 1) I mustn't block. 2) I mustn't gag. 3) I mustn't wimp... etc). No, it's better that I find, and address, the underlying reasons - which, surprisingly enough, are often very simple to express.  Sure, every decision is different.  But I am interested in discovering people's default postion - in finding the impulses that underlie each choice. So come on, Psion - when push comes to shove, what's your base response? Do you say "Yes!" or "No!"? Oh, and why didn't I say all this in the first place?Because 1) I wanted to hear people's responses first, and 2) people get scared by long initial posts- the thread would have dropped like a stone. I've learnt to keep threadstarting posts as simple as possible.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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