What Happens When You Act As If

Confidence. Self-love. Possibility. Improvising has a surprising trick for bringing them closer, even before you believe you're ready.

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When we improvise, we act as if we’re different characters - with different emotions, beliefs, or circumstances. And here’s the wild part: it works. In a scene, if you act as if you’re heartbroken, your scene partner responds like you are. If you act as if you’re the mayor of a town overrun by raccoons, they treat you lik…