While talking about how interesting it is to watch people's "failures" today in class I ended up thinking about my time on the Comedy Sportz team in high school. It is to this day, one of the best experiences of my life. It is where I learned to accept failure. As a rule in Comedy Sportz when someone messes up you give them a round of the applause and the person who has screwed up is to bow and say "I have failed. Thank you." It took a while for all of us on the team to get used to being applauded for failure but after we got accustomed to it, we saw how freeing it was to not be worried about failing. We knew that even if we effed up we would still get a round of applause. I think it is a very important lesson to learn that failure is okay. It is part of every learning process and without failure there is no growth. After my two years on the team I became fascinated with stand-up comedy. Not only does it take an enormous amount of guts to get up and perform in front of everyone, it is usually the case that most comedians or people involved with improv are pretty smart. It takes skill to be able to think on your feet. One of my favorite comics is the late Mitch Headberg. I can quote pretty much everyone one of his routines. So, I thought I would share a bit of one of his routines with you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX7NR4avgzE&feature=fvst
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