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Improvisational theater. (I'm not Eliezer, I know.)
actually... http://greenlightwiki.com/improv/Status http://craigtovey.blogspot.com/2008/02/popular-comedy-formulas.html
learning this stuff allowed me (introvert) to successfully fake extroversion for my own benefit when I need to.
Oh!, I've done impro myself and I agree.
Well, partly.
The dynamics of what works and doesn't has lots of explanation behind it, and the storytelling is all pretty structured. However, when you're right on the scene there's not room for explicit rational analysis, sure.