“An audacious proposition is designed to interrupt the regularly scheduled broadcast to deliver some new information.”
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“Faith doesn't get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it.”
Source: Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
“The underlying expectation of a big idea is that the audience will be smarter, more knowledgeable, more competent, more informed and possibly more in control than before.”
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“We’re swimming in an ocean of information like none of our ancestors before us. And this access to abundant sources of data presents a mixed blessing. There is so much competing information, both trivial and significant.”
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“Your audience needs to know this is important enough to pay attention to right now instead of all the other signals competing for their attention.”
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“The names of those who have influenced our ideas tell a story in themselves: who they were, when and where they lived, what their contribution to the great ongoing conversation was or is.”
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“If you have an idea worth spreading, you don’t need permission from anybody to spread it. If you have an idea worth spreading, the reliable research, data and definitions can be added later. If you have an idea worth spreading, you can sound it out with some loyal friends and let them remind you how much hard-won experience you’ve racked up—how many thousands of hours in deliberate practice.”
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“The story of Blue 52 roaming the oceans, singing its own deep-sea version of a high lonesome, has struck a nerve with a great many individuals. And it’s no wonder. Its loneliness touches the loneliness we sometimes feel when we’re sending signals into the void.”
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“Ideas are being described in this book as free-floating entities that thrive in a great many environments.”
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“We encounter ideas through the prism of our own lived experience and because of this a good argument can be made that we best understand big ideas when they’re presented through the same personal prism.”
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