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Storytelling with Jason Silva and Tim Urban (Wait But Why)

Brains

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What Makes Someone Amazing?

i think taking larger than life characters are really, like amazing ideas, tem and then like imbuing them with a sense of wonder. If most people wanted to write about elan musk, you have a whole series on elon musk. You can explain what makes somebody amazing by comparing them to something else that everybody already agrees is amazing. Or you can tell a story that kind of like reveals how amazing somebody is. Like cal fusman, one of my favorite story tellers,. He's also a master interviewer. Has this great story about the ky that he was afraid to interview. And in order to sort of illustrate lik why william f buckley was so frightening

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