Let's Make This More Interesting

In this bonus episode Adam summarises the key themes and learnings across all the guests from the first season, to make it useful and usable for you. He breaks his conclusions into five sections:  1. The Cost of Dull and the Value of Interesting  2. The Four Kinds of Dull 3. Finding the right way to be interesting for you 4. Common themes and key ideas across all the guests 5. How to use it   Read the full transcript of the episode at The Challenger Project [https://thechallengerproject.com/blog/lmtmi-season-1-summary]. --------- Connect with Adam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-morgan-3a473a/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-morgan-3a473a/]   Follow eatbigfish on Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/company/eatbigfish/] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/eatbigfish/]   With thanks to our editor Ruth and producer Ross. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Named ‘one of the most 10 influential Brits in Hollywood’ by The Sunday Times, Nick Reed has been a successful Hollywood agent, won an Oscar for a documentary called ‘The Lady in Number 6’, and co-founded the most successful viral content company in the US. In this episode, Nick discusses with Adam what makes something not just more interesting, but interesting enough to share – along with what it’s like to celebrate winning an Oscar with Bill Murray, how to get cast in a Steven Spielberg film, and how to get a Hollywood studio to buy a writer that nobody wants to buy. And at the heart of Nick’s philosophy is what he calls ‘giving up the gold’: giving value to the other person early, without expecting anything in return. A longer episode that ends this first season, we hope you enjoy it. Nick's company - Shareability: https://www.shareability.com/ [ https://www.shareability.com/] Follow Nick on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-reed-79269731/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-reed-79269731/] Watch Nick's Oscar winning film, The Lady in No. 6, here: http://nickreedent.com/ [http://nickreedent.com/] --------- Connect with Adam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-morgan-3a473a/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-morgan-3a473a/]   Follow eatbigfish on Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/company/eatbigfish/] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/eatbigfish/]   With thanks to our editor Ruth and producer Ross. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Powerpoint has become the poster child of Dull – can even this most maligned of mediums really be a tool to be more interesting? Russell Davies not only believes it can, but that it’s the third American art form, along with jazz and hip hop – but only if we think of it and use it in a very different way. It seems such a symbolic flip for the cliché of ‘Death by Powerpoint’, that we’ve given it its own short episode. Here Russell shares his very simple rules for really engaging an audience through Powerpoint. Russell's book: Do Interesting. Notice. Collect. Share. https://thedobook.co/products/do-interesting-notice-collect-share [https://thedobook.co/products/do-interesting-notice-collect-share] _______ Connect with Adam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-morgan-3a473a/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-morgan-3a473a/]   Follow eatbigfish on Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/company/eatbigfish/] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/eatbigfish/]   See what’s coming up on the podcast at The Challenger Project [https://thechallengerproject.com/lets-make-this-more-interesting]   With thanks to our editor Ruth and producer Ross. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

One of the most stimulating speakers in brands and communications, Russell has been thinking about what it means to be interesting for over 20 years. In his new book Do Interesting – Notice. Collect. Share. Russell has codified the practice he’s used to make the world more interesting to him, and to make himself better positioned to bring interest to whatever topic he finds himself working on, inside and outside the world of brands. In this episode he shares how we can do it easily, too. https://thedobook.co/products/do-interesting-notice-collect-share [https://thedobook.co/products/do-interesting-notice-collect-share] _______ Connect with Adam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-morgan-3a473a/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-morgan-3a473a/]   Follow eatbigfish on Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/company/eatbigfish/] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/eatbigfish/]   See what’s coming up on the podcast at The Challenger Project [https://thechallengerproject.com/lets-make-this-more-interesting]   With thanks to our editor Ruth and producer Ross. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

While storytelling isn’t the automatic answer to every kind of ‘dull’, if we’re going to learn how to tell more interesting stories we should learn from the best. John Yorke founded the BBC Studio Writer’s Academy after a career that included being Head of Channel4 [https://www.channel4.com/] Drama and Controller of BBC Drama Production [https://productions.bbcstudios.com/our-production-brands/drama-productions], working on and producing some of the world’s most widely viewed and critically acclaimed TV drama, from EastEnders to Shameless, Life on Mars and Wolf Hall. In this episode, he shares with Adam his learnings about how we can all tell a story that will really engage our audience. Read John’s book: Into The Woods: How stories work and why we tell them  [https://www.waterstones.com/book/into-the-woods/john-yorke//9780141978109] John’s company and training services: https://www.johnyorkestory.com/ [https://www.johnyorkestory.com/] _______ Connect with Adam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-morgan-3a473a/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-morgan-3a473a/]   Follow eatbigfish on Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/company/eatbigfish/] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/eatbigfish/]   See what’s coming up on the podcast at The Challenger Project [https://thechallengerproject.com/lets-make-this-more-interesting]   With thanks to our editor Ruth and producer Ross. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.