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TALK - MAY 19, 2016 - WHY I RAN AWAY FROM THE CIRCUS
Opening - Imagine
Honest opening statement

I always wanted to be Smart and Funny, but invariably I always came

across as a pompous ass. Because I was pompous I didn't really know
that I was Infact, I was just boring.
How many of you have gone into a meeting and never been scared,
worried, or felt underprepared?

Opening Provokation

How many of you have been in a meeting and Never been bored? How
many of you have been in a meeting and been completely and utterly
bored?
So Why is that? How do we change this?

Theme intro

Transition

In the Circus we say that the hardest things to do consistently well are:
They require a contant sensitivity If you are too
tight rope, juggling and clown Why? They require a deper sensetivity
nervous, you not on your centre, trying to get laughs, or
of constantly responding.
show off ohhh boy, will the public turn on you quickly.
it is a question of the difference between reacting vs. Rapid adaptation.
Or maybe genuinely listening.
I have a couple of stories and three tools that I think can help you
when you go to meetings

History
After over almost 2000 performances I decided to leave the cirque du
soleil, I left a good paying job and I decided that if I was to grow as an
individual, I needed to change.
I went to my master teacher, Philippe Gaulier.
Philippe has a simple method, go on stage and be funny, make us
laugh, become beautiful. But he has a watchful eye and no patience. As
soon as you are boring...

Philippe Gaulier

He will immediatley kick you off the stage... and yell! Boring!!
it is usually because of one of two reasons, you are not truely listening
to the audience (which means that aren't present), or that you aren't
having pleasure to be up on stage He begins to lift the stick of his
drum, if you don't change quickly it is... adios immediately, sit down
thank you very much.

3 tools
Creativity
Parallel thinking

Intentional inhibition

Creativity is a big carnard of a word We use it in advertising, We use

it for Children, and we use it for Artists but lets look at the what
we're talking about? - Example watson and crick
Explanation with
Stimuli response the space in between use franco pushing people to
dance barishnikov
Don't just show me acrobatics Show me what you have to say. As an
artist we need a point of view, something to say something to stand
for.
The space in between stimuli and repsonse is the notion of freedom.
Herbie Hancock Miles Davis

video quidam bolshoi

Closing statement
I have been working in this industry for a while, and now I work in HR
business Innovations... I've gotten my an MBA, why because for as
creative as we are in the studio... I went into the arts because I thoufht
I caould change People and Help people only later am I relizining now
my true potential.

So now

I have taken the last 25 years of experience on stage and I have

adpated the thinking to collabration, and strategic business
architecture... I am not the first to do this But, I am having fun doing it
my way.
when I work with businesses and large corporations (giving workshps)
I see this wide eyed pleaure as people re-learn how to play together.
Companies all have strategies for improvment, but if we aren'ty
focusing on being boring. They all invariably have strategies, But
businesses are humans. And in the service, creative, performing arts
industries... we have two choices when new stimuli come at us. You
can react... or, rapidly adapt and respond. For when the next curves of
innovation come... you can go off your centre and try to the catch the
wave that has already passed or you can rapidly adapt.

One idea
Gift to Audience
don't just react rapidly adapt. Stop being boring
What kind of business will you be? One that reacts, or one that wil
rapidly adapt

Why me