We spend a lot of our time and energy worrying about the future. Who can blame us, everything seems like it's terrible and about to fall apart.

Every generation goes through this, and I tend to want to be optimistic about where we are all heading, but some days it's really hard. Maybe it's worse for us, now. Maybe it's always been like this and we are connected more now, so therefore we see all the bad, all the time.

Yes, the 24 hour news cycle has a part to play in this. Fear-mongering, driving ad revenue by keeping us outraged. That's all true from my perspective.

There is some good news. And the good news about the good news is that it's fun too.

Uncertainty intolerance is the psychological gauge of how not-okay someone is with the unknown. Peter Felsman led a study that showed that, generally, improv helps reduce people’s uncertainty intolerance and that this decrease is linked with a decrease in social anxiety. In short, improv makes many people more comfortable with uncertainty, which makes them more likely to face social situations.

From 7 research backed benefits of improv comedy.

My own studies of improv have helped me be present, be a better collaborator, and helped me reduce my own worry about the future.

If you want to try improv, I can help you get started. I'm not qualified to teach improv, but I can help you find people near you that are. Email me if you want to talk about it.