What does this all mean? It suggests that improvisers are suppressing their conscious control and letting go. Most of us go through our days censoring our own brains. We respect standards and norms. We try to be polite. We don’t usually swear at people, or punch them. All this requires a degree of self-control—after all, sometimes we really want to punch people. So that filtering is a good thing. But you can have too much of a good thing, says Charles Limb; too much filtering. “Taken to the extreme maybe it squashes creativity. So rather than suppressing all these ideas the improvising brain
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