I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to drive to work.

Okay, so back in 2016, I gave a talk at the GDC, the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.

And I made a whole series of podcasts about all the 20 lessons I learned over my 20 years at Wizards.

But it turns out that I learned more than 20 things.

So I decided to start another podcast series that I'm going to do occasionally that I'm just calling other lessons.

And the idea is I'm just going to take other things that I've learned about and just talk about them.

So today is another such lesson.

So today's lesson is people overvalue ideas and undervalue execution.

So let me explain what you mean by that.

I think if you look at, I like to look at movies as a good example of how we communicate things.

So let's take a look at movies for a second and talk about how we show somebody coming up with a great idea and executing on it.

So normal what happens is you first see the person, they're presented with a problem.

You see them encountering the problem.

And then you see them somewhere, usually, where they're dealing with something that's not

the problem, but somehow there's a connection, and they have the eureka moment.

That's a very sexy thing

where they all of a sudden they realize something.

And depending on the kind of movie,

sometimes it's just you see the actor just goes,

oh, I have an idea.

And sometimes there's, you know, graphics or something

to help explain what's going on in their head.

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