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  • Life Unscripted

  • Using Improv Principles to Get Unstuck, Boost Confidence, and Transform Your Life
  • By: Jeff Katzman M.D., Dan O'Connor
  • Narrated by: Dan O'Connor
  • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (35 ratings)

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Life Unscripted

By: Jeff Katzman M.D., Dan O'Connor
Narrated by: Dan O'Connor
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Publisher's summary

Learn to collaborate with others, think on your feet, and celebrate mistakes using the skills of improv theater

So many of us go through life following scripts we didn’t write for ourselves—scripts designed by our family, shaped by our friends, and influenced by the expectations of the people we meet. But the script that worked when we were younger can impact us in different ways as adults and make it tough to get along in the world.

Drawing from contemporary understandings in neuroscience and psychology, psychologist Jeff Katzman and Dan O'Connor, cofounder of TheaterSports LA, explore the nature of our personal capacities and limitations. Through an application of ideas from improvisational theater, we can all learn to collaborate with those around us, to think on our feet, and to celebrate our mistakes. Life Unscripted offers the reader critical tools to enrich relationships, unleash the imagination, and build a more personally meaningful life. Using exercises like “Yes, And,”, “Mistakes as Gifts,” and “No Waffling,” the authors convey practical take-aways for every chapter.

©2018 Jeff Katzman and Dan O'Connor (P)2019 North Atlantic Books
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“Dan O’Connor and Jeff Katzman bring a fresh take on self-help. Life Unscripted details how the magic of an improv class can open doors and change lives without years of talk therapy.… This is a book for all of us facing an increasingly unstable world. Learn why improv is the most delightful way to ‘get over yourself’ and ‘create a life of meaning." (Patricia Ryan Madson, Stanford professor emerita and author of Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up)

Life Unscripted is simply wonderful. Jeff Katzman and Dan O’Connor give the reader a simple, clear explanation of the development of our sense of self.… Life Unscripted is apt to be invaluable to mental health professionals and will be inspirational to all.” (Robin Kissell, MD, training and supervising psychoanalyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and associate clinical professor at the UCLA Semel Institute)

“[Life Unscripted offers] a wonderful tone, terrific examples, citations, and anecdotes in both professional areas, and a number of fresh takes on applied improv. This is a lovely addition to the canon.” (Kat Koppett, author of Training to Imagine)

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I found this book to be thought provoking and engaging. it is also practical and helpful. Highly recommended.

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Great Read

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and I’m thinking about taking an improv class!
This is one book I believe people should take the time to read or listen

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Healing ❤️‍🩹 through Comedy

Loved 🥰 the book and all the clear suggestions
Definitely 👍🏼 if you not want to go to a counselor go to some improv classes!

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