After reading this book, you may still not know how to talk about talk shows, but you will definitely gain some good habits and methods for creative work.
In the book, Li Dan compiled the experience of himself and his colleagues in talk shows for many years, analyzed talk shows and other creative work from the perspectives of entrepreneurs and managers in the industry, and proposed sincerity, integration Ways to improve yourself by living and sharing yourself.
Sherlock Holmes said that seeing and observing are different. Only by learning to observe can you become a qualified creator. In your creative work, you must realize that your entire life should serve your creation.
The essence of work is transaction. We use our time and talents to exchange money with the market through a company. When the efficiency of exchanging through the company is not as good as exchanging directly with the market, it is better to resign.
Talk shows should have verbatim drafts, and the same goes for creations and speeches. You may not be satisfied no matter how you write it at first, but if you can’t write good things, you can’t write bad ones. Only when you have bad ones can you write If there is something good, take action, and only after it is completed will there be perfection.
In the talk show manual, Li Dan put forward strict verbatim requirements for text creation. These requirements include writing every day, deleting until it can no longer be deleted, and not using homophones. These are guidelines for writing work, but not everyone can do them all the time.
We often set strict and precise growth goals for ourselves, but most of them cannot be achieved. What to do, start moving. No matter what, take action and write first. If you can’t write well, can you still write well? Only with the bad can there be the good; if you can't write an entire paragraph verbatim, how can you still write a mediocre beginning? If you can’t write every day, let’s write about the head office once a week.
Sincerity is the ability to be truthful and listen. Whether it is talk shows or writing, one shares one's own values ??through certain expression methods. Only sincerity can make such sharing meaningful. Sincerity means that the creator cannot be perfunctory or cater to others. It also means that the creator must be able to listen to his own life and the lives of others.
Li Dan believes that talk shows are about acting yourself and sharing your true values ??with the audience through performances. Therefore sincerity comes first. There is also an experiment in psychology that has been repeatedly conducted by major scholars. The content is to investigate the advantages that people value most in others in interpersonal interactions. The result is that sincerity always ranks first.
Sincerity in life does not mean speaking directly, but being able to listen carefully to others and give feedback based on one's own judgment. Sincerity is more of an ability. For a creator, this ability is to be able to integrate his true values ??and his own life into his works and share them. This not only means that the creator cannot be perfunctory and cater to him, but it also means that the creator must be able to listen to himself and himself. the lives of others.
In the creative process, to influence readers and audiences with words, it is best to enter from the perceptual point of view and then persuade from the rational point of view. Emotion is a powerful weapon. Whether it is words or language, only by having emotions can it not be cold and let others feel the warmth and sadness. At the same time, only by controlling emotions can the work be complete instead of collapsed.
Regarding talk show performance, Li Dan gave a definition: the performance should pursue a kind of loss of control under high control. What I understand is that in performance, we should let our emotions drive ourselves and the audience, but we should not be trapped in emotions. It is like using anger to solve problems, rather than uncontrollable anger.
When facing a brain, if you want to influence it, it is best to enter from the emotions and then persuade rationality. From this perspective, emotion is a weapon that arouses the audience's excitement. Whether it is language or text, only by investing emotions can the work be alive, and by controlling emotions can the work be complete.
Whether it is a talk show or writing a speech, even if the whole life is really about personality in the end. After all, skills and methods are tools. It is the cultivation of personality that determines the upper limit of a person, and the national spirit gathered by the great personalities of many ancestors determines the future of civilization.
The Chinese civilization has been able to last for five thousand years, largely due to the common values ????of its society, benevolence, righteousness and morality. This simplest value concept is often the most common among mankind. Therefore, when foreigners come to Chinese civilization, they are often slowly assimilated into it and become part of the civilization. It is even said that our country itself is a civilization. The same goes for people.
Make high-level wishes, make middle-level connections, and enjoy low-level blessings. We often say that it is very important for young people to aim high, because most of us are ordinary people and our goals cannot be achieved. But it doesn't matter. Although the top of the mountain is brilliant and there are beautiful scenery on the way to the top, all you can see at the bottom of the mountain is clouds and mist.
Friends who like to watch military affairs should all know that if you want to defend a place in a war, the commander's order must be to move forward to defend, rather than to defend in place. Just like if the Chinese civilization wants to defend the Great Wall, it must occupy Inner Mongolia. If it only defends the Great Wall, in the end the Great Wall will not be able to defend it.
The same is true for creation. If you tell yourself to just write casually, then the final thing you write will be worse than just writing casually. You can only compare it with the works of famous artists and tell yourself to work hard in this direction and force yourself to do so. Only by moving forward as far as possible can you write something decent.
A movie allows a character to grow from abject ignorance to a hero in two hours, while a talk show allows the audience to grow up in five minutes. This impact as the character grows is the sense of growth, and the tears, sighs, and silence that follow are the best recognition of creation.
There is a big difference between movies and TV series. The characters in most TV series, especially sitcoms, are basically the same. What the audience sees is a person with such a character facing various situations. reaction. The requirement of the movie for the protagonist is that he needs to grow up. After some adventures, the protagonist at the end is different from himself at the beginning. It is best that he changes the world. Movies are about change.
People naturally like to watch growth. In a talk show, you have to spend five minutes to show your growth to the audience. When the audience sees and understands your growth, the audience will also grow or at least gain the illusion of growth. This is the charm of the work.
There are many things that you have worked hard for but have no results. Only by doing difficult and correct things can you avoid regrets. The so-called correctness means that you will always feel uncomfortable if you don't do it. What if I give it a try? It's better to face it than to waste it.
This is Li Dan’s advice in the article to young people who often doubt themselves: do the difficult but right thing. What is difficult? Creation is a very difficult thing. This is a job that often fails to create even if everything is mobilized. In fact, not only in creation, but also in life and work, we often work hard but have no results.
In fact, as long as you know what is right, this is the most mysterious part. You have ten thousand reasons to convince yourself not to do it, because it is difficult, because there is no time, because there are no resources, etc. wait. It's better to face it than to waste it.
Try not to make things an end in themselves, but try to become a better person.
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