There are two more big secrets on how to get better and better at interviewing. And the first one is to simply do a lot of interviews. The more interviews you do, the better you will get most of the time unless you're really doing something awful. The second big tip, get as much feedback as possible. So my recommendation, do interviews as often as possible, and put them on your own YouTube channel or Vimeo or someplace online, where you can get as much feedback as possible. Now, some of the feedback could very well be nasty, mean spirited, believe me, I get feedback from people on videos where I've done interviews where people say, TJ, you're stupid, you're bald, you're ugly, you're BDI you should be behind the camera.

Now, I don't enjoy it, but I do try to just laugh that off because it's just not meaningful. You will get some meaningful feedback and you will learn from it and you'll also toughen up. You're going to be interviewing people, you're going to get criticism. It doesn't matter if you're doing it for a newspaper, for your own in house corporate newsletter. People like to criticize interviews, they like to criticize the media and even if it's your own blog, your type of media outlet, if you're interviewing people, and giving either the full interview or edited versions of it, so you're going to get criticism. That's okay.

But if you want to get better at this, do it as frequently as possible, and get as much feedback as possible. That's why I recommend if you're on YouTube, make the settings so that people can automatically put their feedback