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196 - Robert Poynton on Improvisation As A Way of Life

Humans On The Loop

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The Importance of Planning

When I was rewriting this book, some of my thinking had been thrown into new relief by Margaret Heffernan. If you did have the complete thorough and total script for your life, then as she rather sweetly says, that would reduce life to the process of waiting for the train. That all of what we actually value, or much of what we value most, let's say, in life, comes from that space of uncertainty. So it's in uncertainty that creativity lies, obviously by definition, if we already have the idea, then how would it be?

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