{"id":4010,"date":"2023-09-04T12:43:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T16:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/yes-and-the-impossible-take\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T12:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T16:43:58","slug":"yes-and-the-impossible-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/yes-and-the-impossible-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes And \u2013 The Impossible Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The \u201cyes and\u201d technique is a favorite technique people use in improv.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that you never stop the momentum. No matter what anyone says \u2013 you just say \u201cyes and\u201d and then keep the train going \u2013 accepting the premise the other person put forward \u2013 no matter how ridiculous it is<\/p>\n<p>The popularity has spilled over into business, brainstorming and other communication classes, but it works well with hard things with yourself as well.<\/p>\n<p>When shit sucks \u2013 it\u2019s tempting to start listing out why.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s hot.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t want to.<\/li>\n<li>Things aren\u2019t fair.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s too expensive.<\/li>\n<li>I probably can\u2019t pull it off anyways.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instead of letting those be final statements \u2013 yes-and them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hot.<br \/><em>Yes and\u2026<br \/><\/em>I don\u2019t want to\u2026<br \/><em>Yes and\u2026<br \/><\/em>Things aren\u2019t fair.<br \/><em>Yes and\u2026<br \/><\/em>It\u2019s too expensive.<br \/><em>Yes and\u2026<br \/><\/em>I probably can\u2019t pull it off anyways.<br \/><em>Yes and\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pretty soon you run out of reasons why not to do something and the list of reasons why you shouldn\u2019t bother becomes the stack of reasons why it\u2019s worth doing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turn the excuse into the expected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do it anyways.<\/p>\n<p>Yes and\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!--<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\"\n\t\t\txmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\"\n\t\t\txmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n\t\t<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"https:\/\/impossiblehq.com\/yes-and-the-impossible-take\/\"\n    dc:identifier=\"https:\/\/impossiblehq.com\/yes-and-the-impossible-take\/\"\n    dc:title=\"Yes And &ndash; The Impossible Take\"\n    trackback:ping=\"https:\/\/impossiblehq.com\/yes-and-the-impossible-take\/trackback\/\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>-->\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '239581073390542');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cyes and\u201d technique is a favorite technique people use in improv. 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