TED TALK / How craving attention makes you less creative

Creative Processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Arts, Tv & Film, Performing Arts

4.4 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

For this episode, I’m going to do something a little different. I recently did a TED Talk, and there was something really distinct and special about it. I’m pretty used to performing on stage in front of people as a character or for a show, but it felt different to be on stage delivering in-depth thoughts of my own about an idea that’s important to me. I’m putting this TED Talk on my podcast because it’s about how the creative process can be affected by the attention-driven model of big tech companies, and how you can feel a difference when you try to pay attention vs. get attention. We’ll be back next week with more episodes of CREATIVE PROCESSING. I hope you enjoy. For more TED Talks, subscribe to the podcast TED Talks Daily, where they post a new idea every day. It’s available anywhere you listen to podcasts. Thanks! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome
0:06.7	welcome to the creative processing podcast my name is Joe Gordon Levitt
0:11.1	today I'm gonna do something a little different. It's the
0:14.1	middle of the week and I'm going to play you a TED Talk. I just gave a TED Talk. It was a
0:21.4	it was a pretty special experience actually. It's funny. I haven't said this anyway but I go on a lot of stages I've been very lucky in my life to have been on some big stages in front of big audiences. I don't really get nervous on stage.
0:35.0	I got totally nervous on stage giving this dead talk. It was a really unexpected thing
0:42.4	and hopefully you won't hear it.
0:45.0	I'm about to play you the TED Talk.
0:47.0	Don't be thinking about me being nervous.
0:50.0	The reason I bring that up is just, A, it's funny to me, but B, there was something I think kind of special about this.
0:58.0	It felt really different to be on a stage, delivering thoughts of my own in-depth about an idea that's important to me.
1:07.0	That's quite different than getting on stage and playing a character or putting on a show of entertainment you know clearly TED Talks are entertaining in their
1:17.1	own way and there's definitely overlap between what I do as an actor and what I got to do on the TED stage but there really was something different about it and I'm I don't know I'm I'm proud I'm proud of it. I spent a lot of time thinking about exactly what I wanted to say.
1:37.0	I wrote it and rewrote it and rewrote it and rewrote it.
1:40.0	And I think it's you know I'm putting it on this podcast because it is all about the
1:44.8	creative process. So yeah it's 13 minutes and here it is. First of all,
1:55.0	all, thank you for your attention.
1:58.0	There's nothing quite like being in a room full of people like this,
2:01.0	where all of you are giving your attention to me.
2:05.4	It's a powerful feeling to get attention.
2:09.2	I'm an actor so I'm a bit of an expert on well nothing really but I do know what it feels like to get attention I've been lucky in my life to get a lot more than my fair share of attention.
2:23.0	And I'm grateful for that, because like I said,
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