Play Your Way Sane
120 Improv-Inspired Exercises to Help You Calm Down, Stop Spiraling and Embrace Uncertainty
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Clay Drinko PhD
About this listen
Stop negative thoughts, assuage anxiety, and live in the moment with these fun, easy games from improv expert Clay Drinko.
If you’ve been feeling lost lately, you’re not alone! Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans were experiencing record levels of loneliness and anxiety. And in our current political turmoil, it’s safe to say that people are looking for new tools to help them feel more present, positive, and in sync with the world. So what better way to get there than play?
In Play Your Way Sane, Dr. Clay Drinko offers 120 low-key, accessible activities that draw on the popular principles of improv comedy to help you tackle your everyday stress and reconnect with the people around you. Divided into 12 fun sections, including “Killing Debbie Downer” and “Thou Shalt Not Be Judgy”, the games emphasize openness, reciprocation, and active listening as the keys to a mindful and satisfying life. Whether you’re looking to improve your personal relationships, find new meaning at work, or just survive our trying times, Play Your Way Sane offers serious self-help with a side of Second City sass.
©2021 Clay Drinko. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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From comedian Quinta Brunson (creator and star of Abbott Elementary) comes a deeply personal and funny collection of essays about trying to make it when you're struggling, the importance of staying true to your roots, and how she's redefined humor online. In her debut essay collection, Quinta applies her trademark humor and heart to discuss what it was like to go from a girl who loved the World Wide Web to a girl whose face launched a thousand memes. This special Audible edition includes never-before-heard details about the making of Abbott Elementary.
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That moment you know you’re a TEACHER…
- By chrissybrown on 09-19-22
By: Quinta Brunson
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Lose Well
- By: Chris Gethard
- Narrated by: Chris Gethard
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Let’s face it: we all want a seat at the cool table, a great job, and loads of money. But most of us won’t be able to achieve this widely accepted, black-or-white, definition of winning, which makes us feel like failures, that we’re destined to a life of loserdom. That’s the conventional wisdom. It’s also crap, according to comedian and cult hero Chris Gethard, who knows a thing of two about losing. Failing is an art form, he argues; in fact, it’s the only the way we’re ever going to discover who we are, what we really want, and how to live the kind of life we only dreamed about.
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WHAT A LOSER
- By Amazon Customer on 01-26-19
By: Chris Gethard
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Stop Saying You're Fine
- Discover a More Powerful You
- By: Mel Robbins
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Right now, over 100 million Americans secretly feel frustrated and bored with their lives. If you've come to regard yourself as your own worst enemy; if you constantly daydream and wonder, "Is this all there is?"; if you have a tendency, when asked how you're doing, to just say "Fine," you may be one of them. If this sounds familiar, there's clearly something missing from your life. This book will help you discover what it is, and how to win it back.
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STOP and buy The Five Second Rule instead.
- By Ryan Healey on 07-19-17
By: Mel Robbins
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Professional Troublemaker
- The Fear-Fighter Manual
- By: Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- Narrated by: Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Luvvie Ajayi Jones is known for her trademark wit, warmth, and perpetual truth-telling. But even she's been challenged by the enemy of progress known as fear. She was once afraid to call herself a writer, and nearly skipped out on doing a TED talk that changed her life because of imposter syndrome. As she shares in Professional Troublemaker, she's not alone.
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I’m missing something
- By Cheval Violet on 04-22-21
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Slay Like a Mother
- How to Destroy What's Holding You Back So You Can Live the Life You Want
- By: Katherine Wintsch
- Narrated by: Katherine Wintsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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In this emotionally charged how-to guide, you'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll discover eye-opening lessons about: The mask you're wearing. The one you hide behind when you say everything is "just fine" when it's not. Your unrealistic expectations. The goal-setting tactics you're deploying to get ahead could be what's holding you back. The difference between struggling and suffering. Being a mother is a struggle - it always has been - but your suffering is optional.
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Great for dads too!
- By Earl Cox on 06-20-19
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Funny How It Works Out
- By: Manon Mathews
- Narrated by: Manon Mathews
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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For comedian and content creator Manon Mathews, comedy is life. But it took more than luck for her hilarious antics on Vine to open the door to her career. It took years of routinely embarrassing herself, improv classes, some stints as an amateur stand-up comic, unrelenting dedication, and one life-altering night out that forced her to change her ways. This set her on the path to manifesting her dream life.
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Excellent book!
- By cinematicashley on 11-18-20
By: Manon Mathews
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Works Well with Others
- An Outsider's Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You
- By: Ross McCammon
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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This is McCammon's honest, funny, and entertaining journey from impostor to authority - a story that begins with periods of debilitating workplace anxiety but leads to rich insights and practical advice from a guy who still remembers what it's like to feel entirely ill equipped for professional success.
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Amusing but really limited
- By Margaret on 11-24-15
By: Ross McCammon
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Familyhood
- By: Paul Reiser
- Narrated by: Paul Reiser
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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In Familyhood, Reiser shares his observations on parenting, marriage, and mid-life with the wit, warmth, and humor that he’s so well-known for. From the first experience of sending his two boys off to summer camp to maneuvering the minefield of bad words learned at school, this hilarious new book captures the spirit of familyhood, the logical next frontier for Reiser’s trademark perspective on the universal truths of life, love, and relationships.
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Witty and warm, a pleasurable read
- By Frank on 06-03-11
By: Paul Reiser
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Have a New You by Friday
- How to Accept Yourself, Boost Your Confidence & Change Your Life in 5 Days
- By: Kevin Leman
- Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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How many times have you tried to change your own habits, only to find that changing yourself is even harder than trying to change someone else? With his signature wit and commonsense psychology, Dr. Kevin Leman walks you through your own personal five-day action plan. You will come to accept the truth about yourself, boost your confidence by identifying the lies you’re telling yourself (and putting them to rest for good), and change your life by concentrating on becoming who you really want to be.
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Wrong title?
- By Marianne on 03-25-11
By: Kevin Leman
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I'll Be There (But I'll Be Wearing Sweatpants)
- Finding Unfiltered, Real-Life Friendships in This Crazy, Chaotic World
- By: Amy Weatherly, Jess Johnston
- Narrated by: Amy Weatherly, Jess Johnston
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
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Loneliness doesn't care what age you are, how many Instagram followers you have, or where you call home. It doesn't care how "put together" you appear to the outside world. We have a collective wound that only authentic sisterhood can heal. With real-life vulnerability and "I’ve been there, too" wisdom about building deep and satisfying friendships, Amy and Jess unpack the lies we've been told about friendship
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Heavy religious content slightly off-putting
- By Gary on 03-12-22
By: Amy Weatherly, and others
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The Todd Glass Situation
- A Bunch of Lies about My Personal Life and a Bunch of True Stories about My 30-Year Career in Standup Comedy
- By: Todd Glass, Jonathan Grotenstein
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was an easy life. Well, easy as long as you didn't have dyslexia or ADD, or were a Jew. And once you added gay into the mix, life became more difficult. So Todd Glass decided to hide the gay part, no matter how comic, tragic, or comically tragic the results. Now, Todd has written an open, honest, and hilarious memoir in an effort to help everyone - young and old, gay and straight - breathe a little more freely.
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Worth It
- By Heather on 11-17-14
By: Todd Glass, and others
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Thank & Grow Rich
- A 30-Day Experiment in Shameless Gratitude and Unabashed Joy
- By: Pam Grout
- Narrated by: Pam Grout
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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Thank & Grow Rich is for anyone interested in hooking up with the magnanimous energy field of the cosmos. Author Pam Grout, who likes to call herself the Warren Buffet of Happiness, says it all starts with getting on the frequency of joy and gratitude. Thanking (rather than thinking) puts us on an energetic frequency - a vibration - that calls in miracles.
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IT IS OKAY!!!
- By Amanda Smith on 10-20-16
By: Pam Grout
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- Anonymous
- 02-20-21
This inspiring book comes to life with iconic narration
I love this book! As someone who has lived with anxiety all my life, it really gets me thinking creatively about healthier and more uplifting ways to approach life. The exercises are so much fun and the book is just very enjoyable in general. I particularly love the way that the narrator brings the author’s words to life and makes me feel more connected to the experience. Couldn’t recommend this listen enough! You’ll thank me later.
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- William Plunkett
- 03-27-21
Absolutely Outstanding!
I had only ever really seen improv shows in college, and after I graduated, I didn't think I'd ever hear the word "improv" again, or at least I hoped I wouldn't. I couldn't have been wronger. Dr. Drinko puts things in perspective in a way that I had never thought of before, and he brilliantly combines theatrical techniques and styles with ways to better improve your mental health. The reader's performance is one of the most thoroughly engaging I've heard so far in my Audible journey, and I certainly hope to hear more of him!
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- Mary Nienaber Gadd
- 07-07-21
More tools in the tool box for handling anxiety
Full disclosure: the author is a college classmate (from many, many *checks notes* years ago…like, almost 20?), which is how I heard about this book originally, but I was very intrigued about the subject. After reading and listening to it, I was so pleased that, although this book is entertaining, it will also give me another tool to use with combatting anxiety. I almost need the book to be in the form of a deck of cards so I can pull out an exercise at random when I need one. I’m so impressed with how Clay—now Dr. Drinko—has developed this work! I do hope he’s able to record the Audible again with himself as the narrator. The actor they used didn’t really match up with the material. Dr. Drinko is a natural performer and entertainer, and this is clearly his passion, so I think it would really help listeners to connect to the work if it was done by the author himself.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-09-24
Lots of good usable ideas
For yourself or a group. Plenty of ideas to foster spontaneity, authenticity, connection. The excessive clichés wore on me towards the last hour. All the same. they add a texture to the co tent that you will appreciate!
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- Niall
- 02-14-21
No games, no psychology, no self help-Just garbage
These are NOT GAMES! This is a list of strange activities that are neither fun nor healthy. Things like pointing to random objects and saying them outloud without any descriptions. "Car, road, sign, tree. Here's one- take another route home. That's the improv game-taking another way home. Here's one- go for a walk around the room and notice things. If that's too easy you can go outside (which is a separate more advanced game). Here's another improv game- Notice how annoyed people around you are. Here's another improv game- Go to a museum and pretend that you are shopping. Ask yourself what in the museum you want to buy. That's actually the game. Here's another one- Shake your body and will yourself to stop feeling bad (shake it off if you will). Here's another improv game- Say one thing over and over- anything but over and over. Here's another one- touch things. Not people- but just things. Touch them. That's the game. Here's a game- imagine yourself on a beach. By now you might think that I am taking the writer out of context or removing the most important parts of these non-game games. I assure you I am not. I am being fair and giving all the rules and context in a more concise manner but I am not exaggerating or parodying his games. The writer does spend a lot of time talking about how much these things calm him down, a lot of time is dedicated to him talking about his love of improv. a large portion of the book is totally off topic.But he is at least concise in describing these games. There is nothing here that sounds at all fun or helpful. I think that in some cases he heard someone talk about a psychological exercise and then he stripped all the important context out of it and that is why some of them don't make sense- that is giving him the benefit of doubt that any of these have any thought put into them. I really wanted to like this book. It sounded like combining improv and self help was some of my favorite things finally coming together in a psychological reeses. But this is a terrible, unfocused mishmash of strange pointless tasks that mean nothing. Most people could have thought of better self help games while sitting at work. On the positive side the tone of the book is very positive and upbeat. The reader does a very good job
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