The Greatest Story Ever

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Every religion follows the same template if you go all the way back to the first religions where by the way all of the gods were female not male and yet they're all the same. Every person has a hole in their heart that is the shape of that story it could be a different god there are people with different religions but they all follow the same shape of story. Ai's compression algorithm takes a massive amount of data and compresses it to a much smaller amount over the weekend i'm sitting reading some joseph campbell and what is campbell saying campbell says the greatest stories that everybody knows are stories that have been told and retold through their multiple retellings

Title: Description: Lulu Cheng Meservey is the Chief Communications Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Activision Blizzard. She joins Infinite Loops to provide us with a masterclass in communications for startups. A must-listen for current and aspiring founders. Important Links: • Lulu’s Twitter • Lulu’s Substack Show Notes: • Why people write hit pieces • The insurgency framework • How to access your audience’s neural real estate • How to develop a spontaneous elevator pitch • Tips for becoming better at reading the room • Speak directly and take the hits • Defining business objectives • Learning from other industries • Personalising your message • Overcoming resistance to the unknown, what Christianity can teach us about comms • Escaping corporate jargon • How comms resembles rugby • Taking ownership of comms • Moving to a new model of comms • “Don’t let things happen to you. Go and happen to things.” Books Mentioned: • The Network State: How To Start a New Country; by Balaji S. Srinivasan • The Hero with a Thousand Faces; by Joseph Campbell