Michael Lewis: uncertainty

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…Yes. We get all these emails every time we'd meet people and they talk about the show. They'd be like, I love the story. You guys are just gifted storytellers. That's what we hear over and over and over again. Eventually we were like, well, we should believe that. I'm going to interject what I noticed. In that first episode, you were so unsure of yourselves. You were so choked, both of you. You have a background in theater. You were an actor. You did not come across as people who'd been on stage. It was an affectless performance. There was a flatness to it. Whether you knew it or not, you exhibit a lot of emotion. You didn't realize that one of your secret sauces is emotion. The way you respond to each other when you're presenting material is helping the audience under understand how they should feel about it. You're giving them sometimes very dry facts, like, I don't know. Their revenues doubled every year for a hundred years straight. The audience may not know that that's an incredible thing. The way you respond, even sophisticated listeners are helped, oh, pay attention now, that's an important thing. I should get excited about that. We used to share our research such that we were doing research in the early days. I think we only had a single Google doc that we worked out.…

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