0008: Five Words That Help You Consider The Source

hey there it’s David H Lawrence the 17th
and in this episode of the vo Heroes
podcast I want to talk to you about
something that we as human beings have
engaged in since we’ve been categorized
as human beings going back to the
caveman days cavewoman days when we
don’t know something we hate that and we
make stuff up so today I’m gonna give
you five words you can use to really
test if something you think is true is
true and we’ll do that in just a moment
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so how many times have you thought to
yourself I wonder how they do that I
wonder how that happens I wonder what
process goes into doing something like
that the reason I mentioned this is I
was just on a conference call with some
fellow union members and we were talking
about how absolutely shredding it was to
do audio books how grueling it was and
how it must be a horrible existence and
all that stuff and I used the phrase
that I’m going to share with you today
when I push back a little bit and I said
you know I get this all the time and so
my question for you is this and when we
don’t know something we make something
up we think oh it must be that way that
seems to make sense to me it’s
reasonable to assume that that’s what’s
going on but when you really really
really are presented with something that
you think to yourself yeah you know I’m
not so sure that what you’re saying is
true here’s a great phrase to use taken
from Napoleon Hill and it’s one that I
think we should either say in our own
heads or at least say out loud every so
often just to get used to it and that
phrase is when somebody says something
to you and you want to find out how they
found out about it why they think that
whether or not they have any sort of
backup for it the phrases how do you
know that not said accusatory not said
in a way to be provocative but just oh
how do you know that so when somebody
says you know you have to have a really
really expensive microphone to do voice
over huh how do you know that well I
heard that okay did you check that out
with people who do voice over and now I
mean how you how you that go from there
to figuring out whether or not they
actually do know what they’re talking
about is up to you and that’s an art
form but the idea of just simply making
that that question part of your lexicon
right audio books are grueling they take
you know
20 hours to do 1 hours of an audio one
hour of an audiobook huh how do you know
that or you know we all know millions of
performance myths that you know you got
to have a demo gotta have an agent those
are the first two things that you should
have as a voice-over talent or as a
performer okay how do you know that and
that’s when you really start to dig in
and find out if what they’re saying is
their way of saying I think this is what
it should be as opposed to this is a
statement it’s true be done with it
right so how you say that makes all the
difference in the world and saying it
more often will really help you
determine what makes somebody consider
something truthful fact absolutely
irrefutable right so the five words are
how do you know that and if you ask them
in a way that generates conversation and
leads to understanding that’s great you
don’t want to say it in a way that makes
people think you’re a jerk and I
certainly have made that mistake when I
first learned about this oh yeah how do
you know that so how do you know that
gently and probing and asking so I
wonder if this has worked for you I
wonder if this is something that you’ve
used in the past to determine whether or
not what you’re hearing from somebody is
actually truth or just their supposition
and I’d love to know in the comments
below if you want to share with me what
that what that whole thing is all about
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have you I’m David H Lawrence to 17th I
thank you so much for watching and
here’s how you know that I’m grateful
and I will talk to you soon bye