Get better at improv by getting better at getting feedback (really! seriously!)

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Getting improv notes can affect your nervous system, and your brain. We look at why your brain rewrites feedback and how you can separate the actual content from the emotional delivery (aka, the framing). When a coach gives you feedback after a scene, your brain often processes their tone and body language before the actual words.

This means you might react to a perceived threat before you even hear the advice. We explore a metacognitive approach to receiving improv notes that helps you manage this early physiological response. You will learn an exercise to isolate objective facts, and we cover why writing down your feedback immediately can prevent rumination.

Go here for links to ALL episodes in this series on metacognition: https://improvupdate.com/receiving-improv-notes-and-understanding-how-your-brain-rewrites-the-feedback/

RESOURCES & LINKS:

• NEW! Student and Teacher Guides on Notes: https://improvupdate.com/notes
• Contact BOC: https://www.instagram.com/b3oc
• BOC will travel to teach you! https://highwireimprov.com/boc-tour/
• Watch Billy Mai in this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089491
• Free PDF note tracker: https://improvupdate.com/newsletter
• Link to podcast version: https://improvupdate.com/improvbrain
• Eileen Gu clip mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bthfcm5R7Eg
• Evidence based approach episode: https://improvupdate.com/why-just-be-confident-doesnt-work-and-what-to-do-instead/

CHAPTERS:

0:06 How your brain rewrites your improv feedback

1:23 The Eileen Gu metacognition example

2:56 Separating objective content from subjective emotional framing

4:16 The first wave nervous system response to tone and body language

6:09 Brian James O'Connell and sorting your feedback into categories

8:18 Why vague notes cause stress and worst case scenario thinking

10:03 How teachers and coaches control the feedback framing

10:52 Preventing rumination by capturing the evidence on paper

12:22 Rejection sensitive dysphoria and the physiological reaction to notes

13:46 Buying your brain time for the second wave of cognitive processing

14:56 A partner exercise to practice separating facts from delivery

17:11 A solo exercise for spotting your own framing patterns

Hey so for whatever reason my audio editor decided to HATE my butt today, and I've re-rendered this episode five times now. I've never gone beyond two renders in nearly 50 episodes! "For sure this one will be fine, I'll just render it." Nope. Now I'm at five test listens and there was always some little blip blunder every time that I missed (something got shifted at the beginning and caused a cascading error). Usually in the second half. Fun. funfunfun So if I've missed a blip in this one? I'm sorry. But I can't re-render and listen to my darn voice any longer lol I'm done it is what it is.

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