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From Turning Pro by Stephen Pressfield:
Patricia Ryan Madson taught improv at Stanford for years to standing-room-only classes. (Her book Improv Wisdom is on my short list of indispensables.)
Patricia has an exercise that she calls “What’s in the Box?”
She asks her students to imagine a small white box.
Imagine a lid on this box.
Now lift the lid.
What do you find inside?
Sometimes students say a diamond.
Sometimes a frog.
Sometimes a pomegranate.
The trick is, there is always something inside the box.
With this exercise, Patricia was addressing her students’ seminal terror: that they would get up on stage and draw a blank.
The professional trusts the mystery.
He knows that the Muse always delivers.
She may surprise us.
She may give us something we never expected.
But she will always put something inside the box.
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