Creative Confidence

Here's something I've learned watching people walk into rooms where it matters. A job interview is an audition. A client pitch, a first day, a hard conversation you've been dodging, that moment when you raise your hand and say something you're not sure will land with all auditions. Same structure, same pressure, same voice in your head telling you to be better, be faster, will land in all auditions. The good news is auditions are teachable. Improv figured this out a long time

You are sitting in the waiting room. Again. Not a real one. The one in your head. It is the space between the thing you want and the thing you are afraid to start. The space between the stage and the wings, between the blank page and the first word, between the idea and the offer. Most people live their whole lives in this room. Improv taught me something surprising about waiting. In improv, we have a name for this. We call it being in your head. It is the moment before the s

You're staring at your screen. There's a half-written draft staring back at you. Maybe it's a post, a script, or an idea you typed out at 2 AM that now looks ridiculous in the light of day. You're about to delete it. Don't. Here's what nobody tells you about creative work: the draft you want to delete is usually the one that matters most, because it's the one that's actually alive. It's rough, unpolished, sitting out in the open waiting for someone to say something about it.

Improv, short for improvisational theater, is an exciting art form that thrives on spontaneity, creativity, and collaboration. At its...