Joseph Gordon-Levitt: How craving attention makes you less creative
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Cómo buscar atención te hace menos creativo
As an actor, filmmaker and founder of the online community HITRECORD, Joseph Gordon-Levitt seeks to inspire creativity through collaboration. Full bio
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for your attention.
gracias por su atención.
being in a room full of people like this,
en un salón así, lleno de gente,
your attention to me.
un sentimiento poderoso.
of an expert on, well, nothing, really.
en,... bueno, en nada, la verdad.
to get attention --
que te presten atención...
me hayan prestado tanta atención.
than my fair share of attention.
it's a powerful feeling.
es un sentimiento poderoso.
to experience a lot as an actor.
de experimentar mucho como actor.
the opposite feeling,
el sentimiento opuesto,
from getting attention.
sino de prestar atención.
paying attention to one thing.
presto atención a una cosa.
and we're about to shoot
en el set y estamos por rodar
grita "¡Rodando!".
que ahora me parece un hechizo pavloviano.
magic spell for me.
"set" and "action."
I can't even help it.
or might grab my attention,
o llamarme la atención,
I'm so grateful that I get to be an actor.
estoy tan agradecido de ser actor.
sentimientos poderosos.
and paying attention.
como prestar atención.
a cada vez más gente
more and more people
of getting attention.
de llamar la atención.
expression, not just acting.
no solo para actuar.
or drawing, music -- everything.
o el dibujo, la música... todo.
se han democratizado,
have been democratized,
an unintended consequence
una consecuencia imprevista
with an urge to be creative --
con el afán de ser creativos,
because I'm not immune to this.
of a means to an end --
en un medio para un fin...
porque según mi experiencia,
feeling of paying attention,
poderoso de prestar atención,
the powerful feeling of getting attention,
poderoso de llamar la atención,
that goes way back for me.
desde hace mucho tiempo.
using my acting to get attention,
la actuación para llamar la atención
en un campamento de verano.
for about a year by then,
que iba a audiciones,
unos papeles pequeños
that summer at camp.
en el campamento.
a bunch of extra attention,
más atención,
with the bragging.
started to make fun of me.
empezaron a burlarse de mí.
I had a crush on, Rocky.
de la que me enamoriscaba, Rocky.
and I was standing there, bragging.
estaba ahí parado, alardeando.
and she called me a show-off.
y me llamó presumido,
a buscar atención con mi actuación.
to seek attention for my acting.
si no te gusta llamar la atención,
if you don't like the attention,
la interpretación, sino con el arte".
man, it's about the art."
just like everybody else,
como todo el mundo,
me prestaran atención.
to get attention.
I was just getting all these followers
todos estos seguidores
because they saw me in 'Batman,'
me vieron en 'Batman,'
se me dan bien las palabras".
I've got a way with words."
mi amado proceso creativo.
on my dearly beloved creative process.
like, reading a script.
con este personaje?",
with this character?"
el público con esta historia?",
going to relate to this story?"
en Twitter sobre esta película?".
about this movie on Twitter?"
se reenviara muchas veces,
to get a lot of retweets,
y no quiero que me despidan?".
and I don't want to get canceled?"
un guion, intentando ser artista.
trying to be an artist.
de la creatividad.
is the enemy of creativity.
unprecedented human creativity.
la creatividad humana sin precedentes.
an online community called HITRECORD,
que se llama HITRECORD,
de proyectos creativos,
of creative projects,
ni los móviles ni ninguna tecnología
or smartphones or any technology
about the perils of creativity
de que la creatividad
de llamar la atención,
impulsado por la atención
the attention-driven business model
de redes sociales, ¿no?
companies, right?
familiarizados con esto,
for some of you,
de redes sociales, como Instagram?
a photo-sharing service --
la atención de sus usuarios.
of its users to advertisers.
a las redes sociales como Instagram,
to things like Instagram,
so much attention?
un poco de atención,
from their followers,
o millones de seguidores.
or a few million followers.
Instagram is able to sell.
tú consigas el máximo de atención posible.
attention as possible.
to want that attention,
cuando no recibes bastante.
when you're not getting enough of it.
de recibir atención.
of getting attention.
"Oh my God, I'm so addicted to my phone,"
"Dios mío, estoy muy adicto a mi móvil",
the work of Jaron Lanier,
la obra de Jaron Lanier,
es como ser adicto a lo que sea.
to anything else.
that would feel amazing."
eso sería increíble".
once I get to 10,000 followers,"
que tenga 10 000 seguidores",
then I'll feel amazing."
ahí es cuando me sentiré increíble".
followers on Twitter --
de seguidores en Twitter,
how many I have on Instagram,
tengo en Instagram,
about how low the number is,
por lo bajo que es el número,
after "Batman" came out.
tras el estreno de Batman.
is higher than mine,
más alto que el mío,
terrible about myself.
hace que todos se sientan fatales.
about themselves.
es lo que lo propulsa a publicar,
is what drives you to post,
lo que venden estas empresas,
is what these companies sell,
of attention you can get
que has conseguido lo que querías
ahora estoy bien".
who are more famous than I am,
que son más famosos que yo,
the same thing.
por un deseo de llamar la atención,
by a desire to get attention,
creatively fulfilled.
con su atención
with your attention
la controle y la venda.
control it and sell it.
por el qué amo tanto la interpretación...
to just one thing.
a una única cosa.
some science behind this too.
que respalda esto.
un fenómeno que llaman "Flujo",
in the human brain
al prestar atención a una única cosa,
to just one thing,
by anything else.
you do this, the happier you'll be.
haces esto, más feliz serás.
or a neuroscientist.
for me, that is very true.
para mí, es muy cierto.
like this takes practice,
para prestar atención así,
and really pay attention, it's this:
y prestar atención, es esto:
people as my competitors.
creativa como competidores.
as my competitors, and I'm like,
como competidores, y digo,
more attention than I am,
más que la mía",
about their performance more than mine" --
actue mal en esa escena.
going to suck in that scene.
as collaborators,
como colaboradores,
en lo que estoy haciendo;
about what I'm doing --
keep each other in it together.
son solo los actores en un set
it's only actors on a set
kind of creative situation.
situación creativa.
o solo por diversión.
could be just for fun.
I'm not even in the same room with.
en la misma habitación que yo.
con gente que nunca conocí en persona.
things I've ever made,
that I never physically met.
la belleza de internet.
of the internet.
en llamar la atención,
competing for attention,
a great place to find collaborators.
ideal para buscar colaboradores.
with other people,
or online, wherever,
en cualquier lugar,
for me to find that flow,
es la tarea en cuestión.
that we're making together.
of something larger than myself,
otherwise grab our attention,
llamarnos la atención,
y estar presentes.
wrapped up in that addictive cycle
en el que busco atención.
some part of me here who's like,
una parte de mí que diga,
I'm giving a TED Talk!"
estoy dando una charla TED"?
of writing and giving this talk,
de escribir y dar esta charla,
for me to focus
de que me concentre
I care a lot about.
que me importa mucho.
I do or don't get as a result,
atención me presten como resultado,
for letting me.
que me lo hayan permitido.
prestar atención a otra persona.
to someone else now.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Actor, filmmaker, entrepreneurAs an actor, filmmaker and founder of the online community HITRECORD, Joseph Gordon-Levitt seeks to inspire creativity through collaboration.
Why you should listen
In Joseph Gordon-Levitt's own words: "I'm lucky. I found a creative outlet young. I started working as an actor when I was six years old. When I was 19, I quit acting to go to college. And a few years later (yes, I dropped out) when I tried to get back into it, nobody would give me a part. That really hurt.
"I realized my old creative outlet wouldn't work anymore, because it depended too much on other people. I had to be able to express myself on my own. And my personal metaphor for this was the REC button. 'HIT RECORD,' I'd say to myself. Push the button. Get started. Make something.
"What started as a private rallying cry became a humble website, which grew into a worldwide community of hundreds of thousands, an Emmy-winning production company, and now a new collaborative media platform. Irony is, today's HITRECORD is not about expressing yourself on your own. What we've found over the years is that the best way for many people to find their creative outlet is through collaborating with others."
Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Speaker | TED.com