Joseph Gordon-Levitt: How craving attention makes you less creative
约瑟夫·高登-莱维特: 获得关注的渴望是如何削弱你的创造力的
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.
being in a room full of people like this,
全是人的屋子里面,
your attention to me.
of an expert on, well, nothing, really.
to get attention --
than my fair share of attention.
it's a powerful feeling.
to experience a lot as an actor.
能体验很多东西。
the opposite feeling,
from getting attention.
paying attention to one thing.
and we're about to shoot
magic spell for me.
"set" and "action."
“就位”和“开拍”。
I can't even help it.
我甚至都无法控制。
or might grab my attention,
吸引我注意力的东西,
I'm so grateful that I get to be an actor.
and paying attention.
more and more people
of getting attention.
expression, not just acting.
or drawing, music -- everything.
have been democratized,
an unintended consequence
with an urge to be creative --
都产生了意想不到的后果——
because I'm not immune to this.
of a means to an end --
feeling of paying attention,
the powerful feeling of getting attention,
that goes way back for me.
using my acting to get attention,
for about a year by then,
that summer at camp.
a bunch of extra attention,
with the bragging.
started to make fun of me.
I had a crush on, Rocky.
and I was standing there, bragging.
and she called me a show-off.
to seek attention for my acting.
会有所犹豫。
if you don't like the attention,
man, it's about the art."
伙计,这是艺术。
just like everybody else,
to get attention.
I was just getting all these followers
because they saw me in 'Batman,'
中看到我才喜欢我,
I've got a way with words."
我的文字很有一套。”
on my dearly beloved creative process.
like, reading a script.
with this character?"
going to relate to this story?"
about this movie on Twitter?"
会怎么评价这部电影?”
to get a lot of retweets,
能得到很多转发,
and I don't want to get canceled?"
并且我可不想被取消关注?”
努力做一个演员时,
trying to be an artist.
is the enemy of creativity.
unprecedented human creativity.
前所未有的创造力。
an online community called HITRECORD,
HITRECORD 的在线社区,
of creative projects,
or smartphones or any technology
或智能手机或任何技术
about the perils of creativity
the attention-driven business model
最大的社交媒体公司
companies, right?
for some of you,
a photo-sharing service --
of its users to advertisers.
to things like Instagram,
so much attention?
如此多的注意力的?
from their followers,
一定数量的注意力,
or a few million followers.
Instagram is able to sell.
attention as possible.
to want that attention,
when you're not getting enough of it.
足够关注的时候感到压力。
of getting attention.
"Oh my God, I'm so addicted to my phone,"
我太沉迷于手机了。”
the work of Jaron Lanier,
to anything else.
that would feel amazing."
once I get to 10,000 followers,"
then I'll feel amazing."
followers on Twitter --
how many I have on Instagram,
我在 Instagram 上有多少粉丝,
about how low the number is,
感到非常羞愧,
after "Batman" came out.
才加入 Instagram 的。
is higher than mine,
terrible about myself.
about themselves.
is what drives you to post,
is what these companies sell,
of attention you can get
who are more famous than I am,
the same thing.
by a desire to get attention,
获得关注的欲望驱使,
creatively fulfilled.
with your attention
control it and sell it.
控制和出售它外。
to just one thing.
some science behind this too.
称之为“心流”的现象,
in the human brain
一件事上,比如创意,
to just one thing,
by anything else.
you do this, the happier you'll be.
你就会越快乐。
or a neuroscientist.
或神经科学家。
for me, that is very true.
like this takes practice,
and really pay attention, it's this:
并真正集中注意力,它是:
people as my competitors.
视为我的竞争对手。
as my competitors, and I'm like,
我的竞争对手,我会有些:
more attention than I am,
about their performance more than mine" --
going to suck in that scene.
as collaborators,
about what I'm doing --
keep each other in it together.
it's only actors on a set
kind of creative situation.
could be just for fun.
I'm not even in the same room with.
things I've ever made,
that I never physically met.
of the internet.
competing for attention,
a great place to find collaborators.
协作者的伟大地方。
with other people,
or online, wherever,
for me to find that flow,
that we're making together.
of something larger than myself,
的东西的一部分,
otherwise grab our attention,
我们注意力的东西,
wrapped up in that addictive cycle
some part of me here who's like,
没有一丁点这样想:
I'm giving a TED Talk!"
of writing and giving this talk,
for me to focus
I care a lot about.
我非常关心的事情上。
I do or don't get as a result,
for letting me.
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