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The real challenge for me is that truly great ideas are indistinguishable from snake oil in the format. The well rehearsed: - here is the sob story about how I
by VBprogrammer 5y ago
The real challenge for me is that truly great ideas are indistinguishable from snake oil in the format. The well rehearsed:
- here is the sob story about how I got involved
- here is how I toiled to come up with a solution
- the solution
It is emotive and would work just as well to sell someone on the latest crypto scam as it would the next big breakthrough in water treatment.
- dsign 5y agoIt is a "follow the crowd" thing. Or following a recipe for a successful story. It's not a problem only of Ted talks, read or watch any commercial fiction and they will bore you to death with the same story archetypes. The problem comes from trying to hedge the publishing risk: "see, if we are going to produce this talk/book/movie, we want some reassurances that is going to sell. So, you must follow this recipe." To make matters worse, there are like one recipe, the "hero journey", which is exactly what you described above.