The good news – this book had a lot of information about the art of improvisation (it isn’t just humor) and why aspects of it can help to improve your life. The book is fairly brief, and the writing style is friendly and easy to read.
Unfortunately I found a lot of the advice given was sort of common sense (to me) and sometimes it felt like a bit of a stretch to tie together these improv skills with so many real life situations.
The author has a deep interest in Eastern religious philosophy and frequently ties into various schools of thought, but despite this most of the advice in this book seems to be culturally centered around Americans.
I guess I was hoping for more nuts and bolts about how these things strategies can work for you. It would have been nice if the author took one more step in the direction of practical.
Next I am reading The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud.
