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Quirky McQuirkerson

On Exercises and Tension

Every One Derful thing that appears here has a couple of built in things about them. First of all, failure is built into the exercise. Every task here has a trap, an impossibility and an opportunity for embarrassment.

This built in feature, this component of the exercises has a simple point: They are created to create tension in your life. Now before you throw your espresso, or green tea at me (depending on the story in your head) and shout I HAVE ENOUGH TENSION IN MY LIFE! I would like you to please take your hand off the megaphone and put down your script to Hey hey, ho ho…

This is not pointless tension. This is non serious tension. This non serious tension has a point. The goal here is to provide low risk ways to experience the tension of failure, embarrassment, committing social transgressions and just generally being an incomplete human in a world that demands more.

By attempting these experiments we have an opportunity to watch a lot of different aspects o…