Ira Glass on Storytelling, part 4 of 4

Ira Glass of "This American Life" talks about the building blocks of a great story.

http://www.pri.org/this-american-life...

Video courtesy of Current TV
http://www.current.tv

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[GabrielB28]

Where are parts 5 - 100?

[AnnaInGV]

Video notes - 2 real errors that beginners make, in doing video:

1. talking like people on TV - yet the more you talk like a human, everything will be more compelling. They already have a Ted Koppel...

2. stories indicating you have a horrible personality, that you just talk about yourself. Interaction w other people is what creates the drama

[stephenericwalsh]

To all the people who are annoyed by Ira's "likes" and wish he had prepared a speech to read to us. Maybe he doesn't have time to do that. Maybe we should be thankful he did this at all. Maybe it's just part of his personality. Maybe it's not that much of a big deal.

[gadgetwhore2]

*moot

[Ameer Awad]

like like like umm ah like eeeee andandand like right?ananananan good advice but alot of filling words.Ira you know better than that.....respect your audience prepare your talk.I still love your shows.

[mot123ism]

I have convinced myself however that the word 'like' can be used for both enlightening purposes or less then enlightening ones... I contend that the decisive issues here probably lie beyond words in of themselves...

[mot123ism]

More then this; comparing and contrasting old concepts seems to amount to an attempt to push that superimposed reality beyond it's current limits to a place where we do not yet have words. I'm not sure if this is peoples' intent or if they are indeed trying to shrink their vocabulary, in which case I would be compelled to agree with you for my argument would not only be mute but contradicted.

[mot123ism]

After adopting a view of language as a sort of (read: like) artificial construct that is superimposed over reality, mostly for psychological and sociological reasons, I started to like 'like' more. Using 'like' seems to me to be an acknowledgment that our language (read: superimposed reality) is ultimately limited.

[mot123ism]

I have a very wordy (I'm apologizing in advance) reply concerning the word 'like'...

I'm assuming we consider 'like' a blight because it is replacing more direct words that would otherwise have clarified our meanings? (I say 'we' because it used to annoy me for that reason but I have since changed my mind):

[Che Parker]

Ira is brilliant, but that doesn't mean he is above reproach. Superfluous use of "like" is a modern blight.

[smokemonster420]

There is no you out there, so be you to be new!