How to challenge conventional wisdom -- and change any industry | How to Be a Better Human
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🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Do you think Hollywood needs to change? How about your own industry? It’s difficult to get decision makers to step outside of the tried-and-true and attempt something new. In this episode, host Chris Duffy sits down with Franklin Leonard -- founder and CEO of the Black List, a company that elevates great screenplays and the writers who create them -- to discuss how he shifted the way Hollywood works, and how anyone can catalyze change by questioning whether the conventional wisdom is all convention and no wisdom.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this is Elise Hugh. |
| 0:06.0 | Continuing our TED Audio Collective Friday series, something a little different today. |
| 0:11.0 | An episode from our podcast, How to Be a Better Human, featuring film producer Franklin Leonard. |
| 0:16.6 | He helps us unpack this provocative question. |
| 0:19.6 | What if conventional wisdom is so wrong that it's costing us lots of better, more meaningful |
| 0:24.3 | opportunities? If you enjoy it, find how to be a better human wherever you're listening to this. |
| 0:33.4 | Do you know who's watching you? Discover Palisade, the gripping new thriller that is becoming a terrifying reality. |
| 0:41.2 | In a world dominated by AI, two unlikely allies join forces to uncover corruption and murder at the highest levels. |
| 0:49.6 | But who can they trust when their deadly enemy tracks their every move? |
| 0:53.9 | Readers are calling it compelling and a taut thriller for our times. |
| 0:58.1 | Palisade by Lou Gilmonde. |
| 1:00.1 | Get your copy today and make sure no one's watching. |
| 1:07.6 | Have you ever in your life met someone who felt like everything at their job and in their industry just worked perfectly? |
| 1:14.7 | No room for improvement. |
| 1:16.5 | I definitely have not. |
| 1:17.6 | In fact, if I was talking to someone and they started to express anything even remotely similar to that view, I would be like, okay, take off the disguise. |
| 1:24.7 | You're my boss undercover. |
| 1:26.0 | I caught your rip handed. |
| 1:29.1 | My point is, whatever you do for work, there is clearly room for improvement. Whether it's making |
| 1:35.0 | hiring practices more inclusive, or limiting the plastic waste in packaging materials, or stopping |
| 1:40.4 | the spread of misinformation, we all have a role to plan. And today's episode is all about |
| 1:45.5 | how to catalyze change. How do you get people to try something new when they're already very |
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