As a child, the considered talking in entrance or amongst huge teams of individuals made Anjay Anson nervous. However by a curious coincidence, the present biz newcomer ended up touchdown a internet hosting job within the morning present “Unang Hirit” final yr.
“I’m not used to it… When individuals move me the mic, I move it to another person. It was my first time to attempt internet hosting so I used to be anxious. I didn’t know what I used to be doing. I had no thought what I took on, or received myself into,” Anjay stated in an interview on the sidelines of “The Public Talking Huddle,” a workshop performed by tv host Boy Abunda on the Philippine Ladies’s College (PWU).
However Anjay knew that if he have been to succeed and final in his chosen path, he must look past performing, and increase his skillset to turn out to be a well-rounded artist.
“Internet hosting is so completely different from performing. You get completely different experiences from interacting with completely different individuals. You don’t know the way they’d react or obtain you. And that makes it difficult,” the 20-year-old Sparkle GMA 7 expertise stated. “However I do know that I needed to get out of my consolation zone.”
Attempting new issues
The extra he did it, the extra assured he grew. “When you get the hold of it, when you get going, you ultimately be taught to get pleasure from it,” stated Anjay, whose latest performing stints embrace supporting roles within the collection “Sparkle U” and “The Write One,” and the sitcom “Open 24/7.”
“I’ve realized that it’s OK to attempt new issues, with out expectations, as a result of that’s the place you uncover new issues in life… That’s the fun of it.”
Anjay just lately mustered the braveness to observe his dwell internet hosting spots. “I couldn’t carry myself to observe them earlier than as a result of the considered it makes me really feel shy. However after I lastly received round to watching myself, I noticed that there was a number of useless air and miscommunication with my cohost,” he stated.
“It wasn’t excellent, but it surely was a place to begin. I knew what I needed to repair and enhance,” added Anjay, who put his research at De La Salle College on maintain to concentrate on present biz.
Anjay was one of many celeb contributors of the aforementioned workshop, the place Boy talked in regards to the significance of public talking and efficient communication—one thing he believes present biz personalities can significantly profit from, particularly within the age of social media.
“There’s a number of noise on-line. Individuals have shorter consideration spans. All people has turn out to be everyone to a sure extent. Anybody who engages on social media platforms is, in a manner, a public individual. Subsequently, there are qualities anticipated from a public individual doing a public job,” Boy advised the Inquirer.
Larger schooling
Unbeknown to many, Boy is a communications educator and holds a doctoral diploma in Philosophy in Social Improvement from PWU. And so, in his personal conversations with celebrities, he tries to induce them to pursue increased schooling, given the prospect.
“I encourage individuals to return to highschool, pursue increased schooling or simply proceed studying… I hope that extra celebrities turn out to be to take, not simply programs on public talking, however the schooling path usually,” identified Boy, who sponsors the schooling of actors Kaori Oinuma and Aljon Mendoza.
“There’s this mindset that you simply both be taught from the varsity of arduous knocks, otherwise you go to the academy. However the factor is, you are able to do each,” stated Boy, who’s more than pleased to impart his many years’ price of data to aspiring younger artists.
Anjay’s greatest takeaway from the workshop, he stated, is that there’s nobody who can inform your story higher than your self. “Each individual has a singular story and it’s as much as you to carry that story out. That’s what stood out to me… It was additionally reassuring to understand that nobody’s excellent. It’s regular to make errors; you settle for, be taught and transfer on,” he stated.
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“It is a new surroundings for me. Nevertheless it’s inspiring to see and be round passionate individuals who love what they’re doing and are at all times prepared to be taught,” he added.
