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Here are ten tips for making meaningful edits:. The edits are motivated by the words spoken by both Chris and Bill. Watch the same excerpt edited with footage of Bill Gates listening. All of a sudden, the point of view of the interview shifts. Hope that these tips have been helpful. As new technologies introduce new models for telling stories, and audience expectations shift as a result, the way TED Talks are filmed and edited will change.
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I used to be an A grade student razor sharp intelligence — And that you can be paid for? Conversely, let's say you're a quarterback. With creative note pages, visual note-taking pages and a series of lists, the Do-Pad will support your unique note taking style. You have JavaScript disabled. When the child is deprived of this external stimulation, they get bored. Be aggressive about your ambition: What in their performance?
Next month, TED turns 30 years old. For kicks, post your answers in the comments section below. Ken Robinson, who gave the most-watched talk in [ … ]. This is an impression topic. Reblogged this on iCrazy. Reblogged this on Your PR Assistant and commented: Reblogged this on Youth Ministry Geek and commented: Great tips for editing video from one of the TED editors. Reblogged this on cet mohamed-moore and commented: A great post, with examples from TEDs video editors. This is a great resource, particularly if you do a lotta corporate shoots, interviews, or documentary editing.
Thanks so much for posting this. Reblogged this on Revolution. Reblogged this on deflofla and commented: The reason you keep making cuts to new angles is to enhance understanding, not necessarily to prevent boredom. The idea that people have short attention spans these days is just silly.
I know kids who can play Call of Duty for 20 hours straight. In response to your first point, if you take a basic film class, one of the first things you learn is that there are many different reasons for doing any specific film technique. Saying that varying your shots and perspective will not aid in keeping your audience attentive and interested is wrong.
Second, the research you are referring to is called behavioral analysis, and is one of the most opinion driven sciences. Even if you did have access to the research you are talking about, which I doubt, you would be trying to refute something with an unproven science. Last, and most importantly, can you name any natural non electronic activity that produces as much visual and auditory stimulation for 20 hours straight as playing Call of Duty does? Imagine a child who is raised on the notion that the Call of Duty level of stimulation is normal, while his parents grew up playing hide and seek outside and they are used to a much lower level of stimulation.
The parents of the child will naturally be more content with less stimulation because they are used to it. When the child is deprived of this external stimulation, they get bored. So I became very methodical about testing different ways that I could manage my ups and downs, which has proven to be a good investment. Laughs Many normal people might have, say, six to 10 major depressive episodes in their lives.
I have bipolar depression.
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It runs in my family. I've had plus at this point, and I've learned a lot. I've had a lot of at-bats, many rounds in the ring with darkness, taking good notes. So I thought rather than get up and give any type of recipe for success or highlight reel, I would share my recipe for avoiding self-destruction, and certainly self-paralysis. And the tool I've found which has proven to be the most reliable safety net for emotional free fall is actually the same tool that has helped me to make my best business decisions.
But that is secondary. It's not particularly happy. It's just an impassive creature taking whatever life sends its way. And stoicism has spread like wildfire in the top of the NFL ranks as a means of mental toughness training in the last few years. George Washington actually had a play about a Stoic — this was "Cato, a Tragedy" — performed for his troops at Valley Forge to keep them motivated.
So why would people of action focus so much on an ancient philosophy? This seems very academic. I would encourage you to think about stoicism a little bit differently, as an operating system for thriving in high-stress environments, for making better decisions. And it all started here, kind of, on a porch.
So around BC in Athens, someone named Zeno of Citium taught many lectures walking around a painted porch, a "stoa. But for our purposes, chief among them was training yourself to separate what you can control from what you cannot control, and then doing exercises to focus exclusively on the former. This decreases emotional reactivity, which can be a superpower. Conversely, let's say you're a quarterback. You miss a pass.
You get furious with yourself. That could cost you a game. If you're a CEO, and you fly off the handle at a very valued employee because of a minor infraction, that could cost you the employee. If you're a college student who, say, is in a downward spiral, and you feel helpless and hopeless, unabated, that could cost you your life.
So the stakes are very, very high. And there are many tools in the toolkit to get you there. I'm going to focus on one that completely changed my life in It found me then because of two things: She'd had enough, and she didn't give me a Dear John letter, but she did give me this, a Dear John plaque. I'm not making this up. I had no idea what I was doing. I was working plus hour days, seven days a week.
I was using stimulants to get going. I was using depressants to wind down and go to sleep. It was a disaster. I felt completely trapped. I bought a book on simplicity to try to find answers. And I did find a quote that made a big difference in my life, which was, "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality," by Seneca the Younger, who was a famous Stoic writer.
That took me to his letters, which took me to the exercise, "premeditatio malorum," which means the pre-meditation of evils. In simple terms, this is visualizing the worst-case scenarios, in detail, that you fear, preventing you from taking action, so that you can take action to overcome that paralysis. My problem was monkey mind — super loud, very incessant. Just thinking my way through problems doesn't work. I needed to capture my thoughts on paper. So I created a written exercise that I called "fear-setting," like goal-setting, for myself.
It consists of three pages. The first page is right here.
It could be asking someone out, ending a relationship, asking for a promotion, quitting a job, starting a company. It could be anything. For me, it was taking my first vacation in four years and stepping away from my business for a month to go to London, where I could stay in a friend's room for free, to either remove myself as a bottleneck in the business or shut it down.
In the first column, "Define," you're writing down all of the worst things you can imagine happening if you take that step. You want 10 to I won't go through all of them, but I'll give you two examples. One was, I'll go to London, it'll be rainy, I'll get depressed, the whole thing will be a huge waste of time. Number two, I'll miss a letter from the IRS, and I'll get audited or raided or shut down or some such.
And then you go to the "Prevent" column. In that column, you write down the answer to: What could I do to prevent each of these bullets from happening, or, at the very least, decrease the likelihood even a little bit? So for getting depressed in London, I could take a portable blue light with me and use it for 15 minutes in the morning. I knew that helped stave off depressive episodes.
Then we go to "Repair. So in the first case, London, well, I could fork over some money, fly to Spain, get some sun — undo the damage, if I got into a funk. In the case of missing a letter from the IRS, I could call a friend who is a lawyer or ask, say, a professor of law what they would recommend, who I should talk to, how had people handled this in the past.
So one question to keep in mind as you're doing this first page is: Has anyone else in the history of time less intelligent or less driven figured this out? Chances are, the answer is "Yes.