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The Expert Minute
Sixty seconds as the world's leading authority on the nearest object, delivered with total confidence.
How to run it
- Grab the nearest object or generate a one-word suggestion.
- Start a timer for one minute.
- Speak as the world's foremost expert on it — history, controversies, your rivals in the field. Invent everything; hesitate at nothing.
- When the timer ends, finish the sentence and stop.
- Do three objects. On the third, add a strong opinion the establishment disagrees with.
What it teaches
Confident invention. The audience never checks facts; they check conviction. This drill separates knowing from committing — improv only requires the second.
Coaching notes
Banish 'um' by replacing it with a slower, grander delivery. Experts pause like the silence belongs to them.
Where it usually goes wrong
Being funny on purpose. The comedy arrives from misplaced certainty; jokes about the object are a different, worse exercise.