13233: How Much Do You Want To Know?

Raw transcript:

i have a question for you to contemplate
uh about what you know about the
knowledge that you amass and it’s
not what do you know how much do you
know I’ve got a little kind tiny twist
on this that I think you might like and
we’ll do that in this episode of the VO
heres podcast
Somebody the other day I was at some uh
meetup and they said “What do you know?”
They were drunk I’ll be honest They were
they were drunk Um and and I I actually
quickly knee-jerked to that and I said
“Well it’s not about what I know It’s
about what I can find out It’s about
what I can seek and how much I want to
do that.” And just that very day I had
seen a quote from Alice Wellington
Rollins who said “The test of a student
is not how much he knows but how much he
wants to know.” And I thought that was
great I thought that was absolutely
fantastic So my question for you is how
much do you want to know are you over
this whole world are you done is your uh
is your little pee brain just like
overflowing with stuff and you don’t
want anymore shoved into it or are you
constantly wondering about things and
constantly seeking new information and
new knowledge um I wonder what the test
is that she’s talking about You know a
better student wants to know uh a lot
and a lesser student doesn’t want to
know a lot Uh they just want to acquire
everything and then be done with it
But especially in the world of
performance there’s no end to the number
of things that you can learn There’s no
end to the amount of information and
skills and and strategies and tactics
and uh the the world rules as it is in
the world of performance There’s no end
to it because it’s constantly changing
You know our world of voice over and
acting and writing today isn’t even
close to what our world was in the late
20th century or even 10 years ago Things
have changed so dramatically So my
question for you is how much energy do
you have how much do you want to pursue
knowledge how much more knowledge do you
actually want to acquire
and then a follow-up uh episode of this
will be all about being inspired to
actually get more information and to
constantly get more information If this
sounds like a lot of work for you I get
it Let me know in the comments below Let
me know how you’re feeling about these
things Let me know how you uh react when
somebody says “Oh you got to learn how
to do self tapes You got to learn how to
do you got to learn how to use the new
version of Audacity You got to learn how
this this microphone how you address
this microphone you got to learn this
new uh way of formatting your documents
if you’re going to be writing things so
that you can present them to a a proofer
or a publisher Like I I I I wonder if
it’s all just too much or if it’s
something that you feed on For me it’s
the latter I just get joy and
nourishment and it just tastes lovely to
me when I learn something new when I
find something new But I can see how it
can be really really annoying to
somebody who’s like enough enough basta
you know Um so let me know in the
comments below I’d like to know what you
think about this Uh if you would also
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come out That’d be great I’m David H
Lawrence the 17th I thank you so much
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