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Life Lessons from the DJ Booth | ELEW | TED
Life Lessons from the DJ Booth | ELEW | TED
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Phụ đề (107)
0:03
My philosophy is that we are all DJs.
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No matter whether you’re a schoolteacher
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or a neuroscientist
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or a VC, a genius
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or even a piano player, we're all DJs.
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I think that the club that we exist in is called “Club Reality,”
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and the choices that we make are the tracks that we drop,
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and the perceptual entity that we identify with that is us.
0:29
We are the DJs.
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Now every day,
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we approach with some sort of plan,
0:34
some sort of gentle idea that we're going to execute.
0:38
(Piano music)
0:43
But then of course, “Club Reality” comes along
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and oftentimes, like with the flights, like with all other kinds of things,
0:50
sets everything on fire.
0:52
(Piano music)
0:59
No matter what happens,
1:01
no matter how improbable or absurd the load,
1:05
we have to bear it like the mythical Atlas.
1:07
We have to keep those tracks spinning our life choices.
1:10
We have to keep everything going on --
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and it’s not like we have much of a choice in the matter.
1:15
I mean, you can't stop feeding your dog
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or you can't stop closing that million-dollar deal.
1:21
We just have to keep pushing forward and remember that we are the DJs.
1:25
So I want to share with you how I came to this kind of concept.
1:29
I want to share with you my journey into the world of DJing,
1:33
and how it affected my piano playing from a technical perspective,
1:37
as well as my thoughts, my life.
1:41
When I was about two years old,
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my great-grandmother put me at the piano and said,
1:45
"OK, it's time for you to become
1:47
a fourth-generation piano player in our family."
1:50
And so there I am.
1:53
Eventually, my mother introduced me to jazz music,
1:57
and I fell in love with it,
1:58
but I was always a little bit out of sync with the jazz industry.
2:02
This led to panic attacks,
2:03
which led to me creating my own cathartic rock-jazz style.
2:09
(Piano music)
2:18
But it wasn't until I started hanging out at "1 Oak" and "Finale,"
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these New York City nightclubs,
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that I became aware of the DJs and their art
2:25
and their science.
2:26
At “1 Oak,” there would be these hip-hop DJ virtuosos.
2:30
And I mean, it seemed like they had like, multiple arms.
2:33
(DJ-scratch noises)
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But then the EDM DJs over at "Finale,"
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these were like mythical, eldritch-energy gods.
2:45
They’d be immersing the room in these amazing sounds.
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I was like, is there a mammoth in the room?
3:00
Either way, I was so fascinated with this stuff
3:02
that I had to become a DJ.
3:04
And I began to think
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that these guys were logical extensions of
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Franz Liszt and Fats Waller.
3:09
(Playful piano music)
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Or --
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(Dramatic piano music)
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I had to become a DJ.
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I said, “I’ve got to learn how to do this stuff.”
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I thought it would be easy, given my piano background,
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and of course I was dead wrong.
3:25
Reality had much different plans.
3:27
After a pretty embarrassing learning curve,
3:30
I began to feel a little more comfortable with DJing,
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and I began to notice that it's so much about empathy
3:38
and sensitivity and rigorous preparation.
3:41
Ultimately, it enhanced my common sense.
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I learned stuff like,
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don’t play a huge Avicii EDM rager at a lunchtime cafe,
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and don’t play [an] obscure,
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amazing B-side in the middle of bottle service
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at the peak hours of a nightclub.
3:59
I actually studied the neuroscience of it all,
4:01
and I noticed that even our brain is set up like a mixer.
4:04
There's the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere,
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and the corpus callosum, that strip between the two of them,
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[that] keeps them in sync.
4:11
So we're DJs organically.
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I even came up with an idea I call “piano turntablism,”
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this kind of thing here:
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(Piano music)
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Playing two different tunes.
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Sting heard that -- that’s how I got the gig.
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I opened for him.
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(Applause)
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Pretty funny.
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So ultimately,
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this all has helped me get in control of those panic attacks that I touched on,
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the depressions, all that stuff.
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My mantra is: my mind is the club,
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I am the DJ [and] my choices affect the atmosphere --
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so let’s keep that atmosphere groovy.
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I hope that you find this idea useful, applicable,
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because no matter what life throws at us,
4:55
I believe we can always be enhanced by thinking of it as if we were a DJ,
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because in the end, we are all DJs.
5:03
(Cheers and applause)
5:06
Having said that, I'm going to play a quick tune for you.
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This is an original I call "The Inspirer."
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I find you all so very inspirational and so very groovy.
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Please enjoy.
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(Piano music)
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(Music ends)
6:55
(Cheers and applause)
