Talker and Speaker

We use the same voice while talking to our friends at dinner as we do getting up in front of a hundred people to give a welcome speech.

But it’s different.

When we talk with our friends we don’t often have umms and uhhs or get words twisted around. We just talk.

But in front of a crowd, all those decades of talking don’t seem to be enough.

So a couple things…

While you use the same voice in both examples, they are different skills. And both take practice.

If you want to get the speech right, write some things down and don’t veer until you’re good at sticking to the script.

If you don’t have much experience as a public speaker it’s very unlikely you will go up there and improvise a good one. It’s much more likely you’ll improvise a bad one. Even though you might be a good talker.

 

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Is It Worth Wanting

If you want an award, start a side company that gives out awards and put yourself on the top of the list.

If you want a bunch of followers, you can buy them.

If you want to feel busy (ie. important), schedule more meetings.

But this is rarely the work of an artist.

 

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Serving and Proving

When you’re young, you get on stage to prove that you’re good. To prove you belong. To prove your worth.

And that stuff probably doesn’t completely change as you mature…but over time the focus of getting on stage veers toward emotional connection.

Your insecurities might still be there but you’re able to use them for everyones benefit.

Serving > Proving

 

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Who Clicks The Content?

Generally speaking…

‘Behind the song’ content is for people who know the song. For fans of you. People who really know the song also wanna know what it means to you and where it came from and what that lyric in the bridge means.

‘Making of the song’ content is for the people above and the group of people that is curious about how creative stuff is made. This new group might not be in love with the song but they’re in love with the process and learning about yours.

‘Band biography’ content is for the above groups plus a much larger group of people who like an emotional story arc. The band forms, struggles, gets famous, struggles again, survives. It’s a human interest story laced with music. It’s a music doc.

 

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Opportunity Turnaround

An artist has chance to release another song tomorrow.

A cook has a chance to make another meal in about three hours.

A fundraiser can make another call in a few minutes.

There’s another opportunity just around the corner (if you want it), so while the goal is to be great every time, it’s worth acknowledging the advantage of quick opportunity turnaround.

On the other hand…

It takes a long time to coordinate a rocket launch.

The olympics only come every four years.

Designing and building the latest skyscraper is a ten year process.

It’s not that the opportunity will never come again but there’s added pressure to get this one right.

»» Apologies for being a day late on this one.

 

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