Jiang Xueqin Teaching Gay Talese Research Method Introduction

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0:00so this is our exciting day because we are officially starting the gay to lease journalism course traditionally we've understood journalism and research as this method of just collecting information organizing it and then expressing it but then Along came a man named gay police and he transformed journalism it transformed the way we understood research okay so we created something called literary journalism which is the idea that journalism can be by itself be literature the gate release method is going to teach us how to be creative how to be imaginative and how to engage with reality and engage with people because we don't teach you this in school in fact we teach you the opposite don't explore just do what the teacher tells you to do we need to learn this well he learned this at home the reason why is that his father was a tailor and his father was a tailor and he had a tailoring business in New Jersey and his mother took care of the business well his father made the close okay so what does it have to do with exploration and reflection well his mother was responsible for the business aspects so these very wealthy people would come to the shop and order very nice suits um and her job was to deal with them but it's actually very hard to deal with rich people they make me very demanding so her strategy was to become their

2:01friend and how to become someone's friend what do you do in order to become someone's friend what must you do wrong not talk they have to pay officer listen Okay you understand so a family living room the mother would just sit down on the couch talking with these very wealthy people and she would talk just by listening okay so her strategy for this is that I am interested in you so that's how she became friends with all these very wealthy people even though she herself was that wealthy because she had a mindset that whoever she whoever came into her living room whoever was a client was first and foremost a friend and she want she was interested in this person she was interested in people so she would spend hours and hours just listening that person talk and talk and talk and so you can say that this is exploration okay curiosity okay exploration but in the other room the father would by himself sit and work on the clothes right I'm not sure if you've seen Taylor's work but they are very precise they are very exact they are very meticulous they're very disciplined they're very patient so you could spend days and days in his room just working on a piece of suit right this is the idea of reflection of perfection so exploration is the pursuit of curiosity

4:05and reflection is a pursuit of perfection this is the gay to lease this is the gay to lease research method this is what I'll be teaching you this is something that will not just help you become a better writer but someone who will be much more creative and a much more effective researcher so even if you are going to a Sciences I guarantee you that the skills you'll be learning in this class will help you um Wherever You Go I want you to go around paging and take pictures again the idea is contrast remember that here he says New York is a city of things unnoticed New York is a city of contrast I want you to I want you to do the same thing for Beijing take your camera and take pictures of things that other people would not notice okay and take pictures of things that are contrast of each other