The Rest Of Julian Treasure’s Sour Vocal Notes

hey there hero I’m David H Lawrence the
seventeenth and I’m in the midst of a
series of videos where we’re taking a
really deep dive into one of my favorite
TEDTalks 2013 Julian treasure vocal
coach vocal consultant I’m not quite
sure what he does but I want to meet him
I want to get to know him better because
he’s awesome
I did gave a speech at tEDGlobal in 2013
called how to speak so people will
listen to you and the first video we did
on this was sort of introducing you to
the video I give you a link to it in the
show notes of this in all the videos
that I’m going to be doing on this
particular TED talk I urge you to go
watch it what we’re talking about are
the things that he begins the talk with
in terms of what we can do less of you
know as we look at the the model for
success the definition of success do
more of what works less of what doesn’t
he’s giving you the stuff not to do
upfront and we talked about we talked
about a few things in the first video
this video I want to talk about the rest
of those what he calls the the seven
sins of conversation now he’s doing this
video to help civilians right he’s doing
this video to help the public at large I
want to take a look at what he’s talking
about and see how they all apply to us
as professional performers and in
particular voice talent the rest of them
the rest of the seven sins the first one
is complaining and and we see this all
the time we see this mostly with
performers who have given up you know
they’re there they’re reduced to the
idea that they’re never going to get
ahead and they’re gonna complain about
it rather than look at what I think they
should look at which is their tools
their attitude their approaches they’re
just going to complain the business is
built against them the business is not
built against you the business is built
to help people who make money in the
business continue to make money and so
it’s organized for their success not
your success it’s not organized to make
it easier for performer
in fact if anything it’s organized to
make it more difficult but what that can
lead to is this idea of complaining and
if when you’re speaking with someone
you’re instantly laying blame and
complaining about things that either you
don’t have control over or really aren’t
a problem and what I mean by that are
things like yeah my agent never gets me
out really your agent never gets you out
ever like you’ve never wire you with
them then you should leave or you should
rethink reframe how you look at what
your agent does for a living so the idea
of complaining is something that we can
all do less of excuses this ties very
much into my belief series the the
series that we did a couple years ago
and that’s available on the vo hero site
on limiting beliefs excuses are the
things that we go to oh I’m too old for
this yeah I can’t do that
the whole business has passed me by I
don’t know the technology oh that that
microphone never works right it never
you know the excuses that we make just
waste time because seriously I’ve looked
at it most of the time the excuses that
we make aren’t really the reason behind
our challenge the reasons are often much
more basic and much more easy to
approach but not necessarily easy to
solve it’s much easier to just make an
excuse and again as you’re having a
conversation with somebody or as you’re
talking to a peer or a casting person
you know making excuses about why you
didn’t get a gig or why you know you
can’t find an agent or why you know
casting hates you those don’t move
things forward at all so again one more
thing that we can do less of this one is
obvious but sometimes you know we have
to be reminded and this is the second
last of his seven deadly sins of
Julianne’s to the seven deadly sins and
it’s lying or exaggeration you know if
you make changes on your resume that
aren’t really there that you didn’t
really participate in if you put a
credit down on your resume that you
really didn’t just because your resume
is so sparse and you
want to kind of spruce it up and who
will ever check well it’s a really small
business even though it’s a huge
business it’s a really small business
excuses lying about your abilities can
get you in real trouble well of course I
can do that accent or dialect can’t yeah
sure
you know don’t lie don’t exaggerate
don’t say you can do something when you
can’t and try your best to just live
with the reality of the situation again
I’m not trying to use any of these
things to preach to you I’m just saying
that if we do these things within our
business it’s going to make it a lot
easier for people to appreciate us and
to appreciate our voices and that’s what
Julien is talking about and then the
last one is dogmatism
and boy do we have a lot of that in our
business and in the country and the
world in general these days and
dogmatism is just basically confusing
the idea of what you believe with what
is actually true or an opinion about
something versus the fact about
something you know I can’t tell you how
many times conversations can go off the
rail when you make that confusing
assumption you know well I think he’s a
jerk so he must be a jerk I heard he was
a jerk or I know that microphone is
finicky I’ve heard that microphone is
finicky so it must be finicky you know
this whole idea of dogmatism replacing
actual truth telling you know as
storytellers one of the things that
we’ll find out as we continue with this
series is that honesty is amazingly
powerful and all of these things we’ve
been talking about the last couple of
videos the excuses and the lying and the
dogmatism and the the negativity from
the last one you know all of these
things can be changed and made better
with some basic applications of
positivity and positive efforts and
we’re actually going to identify in the
next video we’re gonna stop doing the
the negative stuff and we’re gonna take
a look at what Julian has to say about
the four things that you can do to do
bad
and the four things are all indicators
that you’re on the right track so I’m
really excited about that
however I would love to know what you
think about these we’ve done seven all
told the seven deadly sins according to
Julian treasurer what are your thoughts
on these do you find yourself kind of
slipping into some of these sometimes
look we can’t help it
sometimes it happens and sometimes it
goes from being funny about that sort of
thing oh that sucks too being really
really negative about it so I wonder
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Lawrence xvii I appreciate you watching
and I will talk to you tomorrow.