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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: belief
15 Dec 2023 Lenny's Podcast How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)
“I think of Pulp Fiction and Tarantino in this often of just like, you know some violence is about to happen, and they go next door, and like, "Let's just eat a cheeseburger," instead for a while.”
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- Speaker
- Lenny Rachitsky
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2023
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…That's like ninja level next level storytelling, which is very teachable. Everything I say is very, very teachable and doable by anybody, but yes, it's a trickier thing to accomplish. Okay, that'll be for a second podcast episode. Just to summarize, you shared I think five ways add stakes. Just to summarize; one is crystal ball. You basically predict the bad thing that'll happen if you don't do this thing. Hourglass, which is when something is about to happen slow time down. I think of Pulp Fiction and Tarantino in this often of just like, you know some violence is about to happen, and they go next door, and like, "Let's just eat a cheeseburger," instead for a while. And then this backpack idea of they know exactly what you're trying to do, and it's on you and the entire movie. Breadcrumbs where you give them a little bit of information along the way. I think maybe that's it. Maybe there's one more. And then the elephant at the beginning.…
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