Stories Mean Business - Nick Warren

What can we learn from a 70-second scene?

(The moment I'm describing comes around 28 minutes into "Over the Mountain", Episode 4, Season 5 of Justified.)

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It's the middle of the year, but I've just bought myself a 2022 deskcalendar.

Of course, I have calendar apps built into every device I own, but I was using them for scheduling, not planning.

That's a huge distinction (which I failed to make when I recorded this podcast.)The point, of course, is that we are so focused on the advanced ninja business skills that we end up forgetting the fundamentals.

No more.

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There's a difference between urgent and important.

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Watch how Richard Feynman deploys an illustration to communicate a complex point.

"The atoms are 1 or 2×10−8 cm in radius. Now 10−8 cm is called an angstrom (just as another name), so we say they are 1 or 2 angstroms (Å) in radius. Another way to remember their size is this: if an apple is magnified to the size of the earth, then the atoms in the apple are approximately the size of the original apple."

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