Name the game

A lesson from improv comedy that will make you a higher performer at work.

Longtime listeners know that I’m a big improv nerd. (If that confession hasn’t immediately led you to unsubscribe, you can read more here.)

A core principle of improv is that magic happens when you “find the game”, which means you identify the unusual, funny, or interesting pattern in a scene. Once you find that thing that’s fundamentally weird and inter…