Focus your thoughts and energy on the things you love about improv, and see the improv chores as exactly what they are. Chores that need to be done.

You can only be tripped up onstage if you allow yourself to be tripped up onstage. Keep your mind limber, and go with the flow of the scene, and it won’t matter how much anyone else on stage tries to railroad you.

Make it your goal to subvert your audience’s expectations.

See if you can get an emotional reaction out of your audience instead of a laugh.

Go out and create your own opportunities.

If you find yourself lost in a scene, a simple way to get back on track is to take a breath and lean hard into supporting the ideas of the other players around you.

There’s a part of you in every character that you play.

Know your audience when you’re talking about improv outside of the theater, and you’ll avoid some of the eyerolling that you might otherwise get.

Remember not to have ONLY improv friends.

You’re never too old to be an improviser.