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When you’re nervous getting on camera, lots of people like to give the advice: “just be yourself.”
I know they think they’re being helpful, but does that actually help you?
Do you know what to do with that advice?
I certainly don’t.
Here’s my #OneTake…
on why I think that guidance is misleading and what you actually want to think about instead:
What do you think? Let me know!
What good or bad advice have you heard with regard to “just being yourself?” What has helped you?
See you next time!
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Hi Nathan,
Hope all is well with you.
As you know I work from home and do _a lot_ of video calls with people from many different countries, some where English is not their first language. In this case when I hear or use the phrase “just be yourself” to me it implies to treat the situation of speaking to an inanimate object as if it were an everyday thing. Don’t change who you are or how you act and react, don’t do anything different. Be honest and natural.
Like meeting a “celebrity” – which is a word I don’t like, but that is another conversation. ☺
You meet them IRL. In that instance people should be just themselves. This is just another person, just an amalgam of elements put together in a different pattern from ourselves. They also have hopes, dreams, ambitions and just the want to be liked and respected.
I was in a class being taught by Adm Grace Hopper and remember her saying something like “be yourself, everybody else is already taken”. Probably got that wrong.
Anyway thought provoking topic I felt I could speak about somewhat intelligently.
Thanks for all the ideas, Chuck! I particularly like the celebrity reference – I think that’s another great way to think about it. I’m not sure I spend that much time talking to everyday things, though (hi table! hi lamp!)—so not sure that would be of much use to me. 🙂 Thanks again for taking the time to check this out!
Love the point you make that it’s not advice anyone can act on. That’s what makes it useless.
I pretend I’m talking to whichever of my friends would be most excited about whatever the current video is about. Acting as if I’m talking to them, thinking in advance about how they would react if they were sitting there, helps me focus on what I’m saying instead of looking at the camera. When I’m even imagining a friend’s response, I get more animated — which usually comes across as more natural on camera.
Hey, if I DID want to leave a video response here, how d’ya think I’d do that?
For Joel and anyone else:
Just pasting the URL (https://youtu.be/1a-s__R0Cmw) doesn’t work.
You need to paste the IFRAME EMBED code!