ABSTRACT
The author begins to teach impro he was told that human beings should always be 'in control', and the rise of the Nazis had been caused by 'too much spontaneity' and by 'an upsurge of unconscious forces'. Perhaps he tell them that when explained this in Stuttgart, two students were so determined to 'win at losing' that they ran forwards and smashed their bald heads together. He get them to repeat the game but now he say, 'Don't define the present you give; define the present you receive, and make it something that you really want. This What an idiot Or blame the situation, blame the class for having too many people in it, blame the noise from the air-conditioning, but never blame yourself. It would take a while before my behaviour persuaded them that author was serious. It seems reasonable to conclude that 'untalented' students could be accelerated to unheard-of levels of 'brilliance' if we could press the right buttons.
