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Today, in my first live t.v. interview, I learned what happens when it's just you and an interviewer with about 2 minutes to describe
two books and you know the interviewer isn’t listening to a word you are
saying. My mind went blank and the last two sentences of what I wanted
to say were lost and the whole thing went down hill. There’s about 20 to 30 seconds that are really uncomfortable. Feel free to cringe, but I
did recover and I was at least coherent if not concise.
Lesson learned: get your sound bites lined up. Less is better.
Relax and smile. I really wasn’t nervous until my mind went blank.
And I think my mind went blank when I realized from the look on the
interviewer’s face that he wasn’t listening to a thing I said. It's like talking in a vacuum and suddenly you panic. You're throat tightens up, your mouth goes dry and there's nothing you can do. Like an actor forgetting a line. Remember that scene in Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 4, when Larry is in The Producers and forgets his line and the whole production comes to a halt? Well, it wasn't quite that bad, but it felt that way.
It was
just one of those things about a super short form interview you have to
experience to get a handle on.
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