Reflections on reading Impro: why does a drama teacher have a vastly better model of status games than any class of peopleologists?
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Can't help but feel that this is one of the main pivot points that keep most people fixed in a certain persona(lity).
The status games you played the most in childhood become calcified and inflexible. Nearly everyone has a specific mode they're stuck in.
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someone could have told me earlier
took me years to find out I needed acting class, not therapy
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Society actively squeezes out drama as ‘unprofessional’. If people are stuck in a certain way of being it’s easier to stick that cog in the right place. Peopleologists tend to mostly work similarly from a “fix this person for society”.
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True, although there are plenty of exceptions to the latter point especially.
Still, I think there are modelling issues. Simulation may simply outstrip lab work or certain kinds of field work in terms of clarity.
Or Johnstone is just that good. Also a possibility.
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It's simple. Drama teacher gets quick feedback from the audience, peopleologists get "peer reviews by peopleologists" but don't have to listen to the people themselves