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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Best of: What Improv Can Teach Us About Creation, Collaboration, and Communication with Tom Yorton

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Tom Yorton, CEO of SecondCity Works, Chicago’s world renown improv theater whose alumni include Steven Colbert, Tina Fey and many other high profile comedians, talks about what the world of improv can teach us about creation, communication and collaboration.



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Second City is very well known for alums from you know the Tina phase and Stephen Colbert's and Steve Corrals to

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Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, you know the list goes on and on and on.

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And literally, you know, dozens, if not hundreds of high profile people have gone on to

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individual stardom and fame and what's interesting about it is they learned everything that they learned in the context of an ensemble.

0:26.0

So I love that model too that you can commit to an ensemble and commit to those around you yet still achieve individual

0:38.2

accolades and individual focus. And I think often in business it's seen as a zero-sum game if I if I you know going for the team I am risking my own individual

0:50.3

start on or my own individual opportunity and I think our place is such a perfect example of how you can blend both and if you really truly commit to the ensemble

1:00.0

the best ensemble players can go on to amazing things.

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I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative

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podcast where you get a window into the stories and

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insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built

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thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.

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