Journaling 30-day-trial, Day 15
February 13th, 2008 by Bill Perry in 30-day-trials, Personal Development, journalingToday, I was thinking about communication, and Joe Vitale, and then it suddenly hit me why one possible reason why Jerry Seinfeld is such an effective comedian!
Honestly, I think this trial, by forcing me to write something every day, is actually priming my creativity pump a little bit 
. As Martha would say, “It’s a good thing.”:
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:47 AM
What is it about….? I love how Jerry Seinfeld starts out his jokes.
What is it about….?
What’s the deal with…?
What is it with…?
From a language/communications perspective, I think his comedy here is brilliant. By structuring his jokes in this manner, with those preambles on his wording, I think this is setting the audience up to prepare them to visualize/imagine/remember the instances Seinfeld talks about.Brilliant.
Example, if I were to ask, “Have you ever seen those people who cross the street in the middle, instead of the crosswalk?”, it’s just a yes/no question. Closed questioning is limited. A much more powerfully effective questions/lead-in would be “What’s the deal with Jaywalkers?”
Not only does the “What’s the deal with…” lead-in to priming us to think about what he’s saying, but by just using the term “Jaywalker”, it forces us go to inside so our brain can retrieve the MEANING of the word.
To sum it up, Jerry Seinfeld is a hypnotic comedian, just like Joe Vitale is a Hypnotic Writer
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2 Responses to “Journaling 30-day-trial, Day 15”
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December 18th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Hi Bill,
I noticed that you did a 30-day journaling trial back in January. I just started my 30-day journaling trial last week (http://thelifeexperimenter.com/2008/12/08/life-experiment-2-journal-daily-for-30-days/).
Just wanted to know how your trial turned out.
What did you learn from it?
Any suggestions for me as I complete my trial?
Thanks…Allen
December 19th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Allen,
I realized while doing it that it was a powerful exercise. However, because I had committed to posting entries from my journal each day, I felt a strange urge to “censor” journal entries as I did them.
So, I didn’t get quite the effect I’d hoped. I subsequently did NOT keep up the journaling practice. So, in my experience, I wouldn’t recommend posting the journal entries, unless you also intend to journal stuff each and every day that you won’t be posting.
I just recently started journaling again.
My suggestion, based on my experience so far, would be to not commit to post your journal entries, if you plan to post ANYTHING, maybe post the results you’re seeing as a RESULT of journaling. Instead of journal entries, more how the act of journaling itself is helping you.
Bill