I recently read Reading a Book: Fan Deng's Reading Method, which showed me the extraordinary ability of a professional storyteller. This book records Fan Deng's growing experience and thinking method of opening books. There are many operational methodologies in the book.
Fan Deng had three experiences before he became a professional storyteller, which laid the foundation for his future success. In fact, every step of life is very important, and every experience will not be in vain.
The first experience was Fan Deng's debating training during his school days, which played a great role in standardizing his vocal system and field control ability. So, how to cultivate the correct vocal system and field control ability?
Fan Deng spent a summer vacation practicing abdominal vocalization. The so-called abdominal phonation method means that every time you inhale, your stomach will bulge, and then when you exhale, you will slowly push the sound out with the breath of your abdomen. If you talk like that, you won't lose your voice for a week.
At the same time, the training of debate also cultivated Fan Deng's control over time. Of course, you can practice with a stopwatch at ordinary times to cultivate your ability to control the field.
The training of each debate is also a tempering of people's psychological quality. In psychology, there is a term called "desensitization". For a storyteller like Fan Deng, desensitization is necessary. There is no shortcut, so we can only talk more and talk to all kinds of people.
For us, there will be many interviews in life, and many people will be extremely nervous during the interview. But if you do desensitization exercises before the exam, you won't miss the opportunity. For example, "bus voice" is also a good desensitization method.
It can be seen that a small debate contest is actually a test of various abilities of debaters. This also laid the hardware conditions for Fan Deng to tell stories to some extent.
The second experience was training in TV station, which cultivated Fan Deng's sense of humor and interesting speeches. Fan Deng built a document called "Humorous Materials" on his computer, and he would record the funny jokes he heard. These materials come from some variety shows, American dramas, Cui Yongyuan's programs, and some crosstalk shows.
Around us, some people may be born with humorous cells, but it is undeniable that everyone can make themselves have such qualities through the accumulation of the day after tomorrow. When you speak, it is also the ability to make others interested in listening to you until the end.
His third experience was giving lectures on campus. This is Fan Deng's first actual combat, and he propped up a course with three books. What university lectures need to pursue is whether the lecture content itself is meaningful and whether anyone is willing to pay the bill. Does anyone want to pay for your lecture? This is required by valuable attributes.
It is very important to understand a book, teach a good lesson and learn to refine the content. Campus lectures have cultivated Fan Deng's ability of content refining and value mining.
These three experiences had a great influence on Fan Deng, and every growth story was the cornerstone for him to become a professional storyteller.
But Fan Deng's success didn't happen overnight. As the book says, you should have a "natural" attitude towards books. Everyone's ability is constantly changing. Even if it is not good at first, it will get better and better gradually.
The so-called doing one thing, the result will not be known until a year later, down-to-earth, and do every step solidly. Mr. Liang Shuming often said that if we treat everyone's development with a "let nature take its course" attitude, many problems would not exist.
Slow accumulation and fast growth. I hope all our efforts will be rewarded one day in the future. I believe time will give you the best answer.