Thursday, March 25, 2010

Things They Should Invent: "Yes, and…" debates

In improv, you're not supposed to shoot down someone else's idea. You're supposed to go along with it and build upon it.

This idea should be introduced into political legislatures. You can't shoot down ideas or diss people. You can only talk if you have something new and productive to add, to build on existing ideas.

It wouldn't work all the time - and we do need some time to shoot down generally harmful ideas - but there should be designated "yes, and" periods so we can actually get some work done once in a while.

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