joy

Cause the thing about chasing joy is that it's a losing battle. Joy is an extreme end of the spectrum the same way that depression is, you're never going to find joy and just be joyful moving forward. I think the trick is to strive to be content with wherever you are and try to create situations where joy can emerge

create rules for yourself so you can find the joy in breaking them, create rules for the purpose of breaking them

you should do things for your own joy and entertainment, but there's another reason that you won't learn until later: the audience does NOT want to cringe. the joy of watching improv is the knife's edge of KNOWING that the performer has no idea what comes next, and succeeding