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17: Dialing Down

Cortex

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How Can You Tell When a Topic Isn't Going to Be Interesting?

i've talked to other people who work in this field and everyone kind of agrees that you can just tell when a topic is not going to be interesting. There are many topics which will sound interesting on first pitch but are actually just deathly boring to try to do. i think it's very natural that other people are going to do the same topics that i want to do because our antenna are all tuned to similar frequencies like we notice something interesting or an idea comes across our mind, he says. The best ones are the ones that seem like they're not interesting at all but that you can you can make really interesting.

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