106 - Active Practice w Jay Gilligan (unpacking episode 96 & 98)

In this episode Jay Gilligan brings up a few questions relating to episodes 3 & 4 in my exploration of Showmanship and Play (number 96 & 98). -We talk about what its like to talk to people about something which does not have an easy answer. A fortune cookie once told me "to every complex problem there is always a simple answer - and its usually wrong."-Jay asks if my process exhausts me. Always keeping all kinds of writing and projects searching for connections in me, does that exhaust me?-Why find connections? Why map one thing onto others?-What does it mean to be an artist.-Metaphor is a way to access reality. How metaphor and imagination affords us our understanding of the world (and ourselves)-Seeing similarity through dissimilarities. Discover greater patterns. Lakof and Johnston Metaphors we Live by.-My new presentation of the classic magic trick called the Die Box.-Jay asks me: Did you come up with the concept Active reading?we explore where it came from and how its influenced Jay's thinking.-Responsibility to engage with tasks and challanges whether in life of in circus school.-We got to be actively engaged in whats happening. When we are doing our thing, but also when others are doing that.-I say we need to be able to develop a language and way to understand all the "other Disciplines" as reality is you will most likely be in shows with other artists which does other things than you. Each circus most commonly only hires one juggler. One guy squeezing through tennis rackets.We have a responisility to make a task in school, or a thing in real life, interesting. If the task or challange sucks. Change it and make it good....Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on [email protected] can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo