His physicality and faultless control of his absurd and apparently rambling stories bring to mind Billy Connolly, if Connolly were Geordie and made the imaginative leaps required to conjure up images of ballerinas being sucked through air-conditioning units and the Dalai Lama incrementally electrocuted by a Scalextric control.
That's because our minds think incrementally.
Either way, though, it's worth thinking about what's coming, not just incrementally but disruptively, transformationally, mind-expandingly.
There are three main calibers of brain function that had served certain purposes in the past and incrementally developed into the mind that we now possess and use for our numerous everyday purposes.
Taking fluttering crisscross steps over a rope placed onstage, her maze, a personal journey that deepened incrementally, was one of the mind.
We need, that is, incrementally to retreat from the mind-set of Empire.
Participants had to incrementally construct scenes in the mind's eye.
Since 2011's Strange Mercy, she has embraced showboating so that makeup, costume and hair, combined with incrementally more funky pop music, would blow minds rather than merely tickle them.
Rather than seeing progress toward our goals as the product of a few big "Eureka" moments, Lift is of the mind that we are best suited by moving more incrementally towards our goals, breaking our goals down into tiny habits that are so achievable we can't help but reach them (and gain momentum).
It's a message, I fervently believe, which infects the minds of other road users and makes everyone who rides a bike marginally but incrementally less safe every time they get in the saddle.
