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One analogy saves two paragraphs
Ozempic for companies
Take a founder who built a system that ingests a company's data, finds the inefficiencies, and identifies them. The description is accurate and takes a while to absorb. Calling it Ozempic for companies does the same job in four words for anyone who knows what Ozempic is.
A cook into a chef
Another founder spent six of seven minutes describing a business where anybody at home who cooks very well can become their own cloud kitchen, serving people who want more variety than DoorDash offers, through a network of cooks. Someone listening suggested a synthesis: you're turning a cook into a chef. The founder said that was it and ran with it.
Why an outside view helps
Someone sitting across the table, not necessarily smarter and without more knowledge of the topic, can take a word cloud of thoughts and ideas and suggest a synthesis. Seeing it come from another person is how a founder recognizes it as the core of the idea, and now there is a compressed, simple version to share and spread.
Why do analogies speed up understanding?
Psychologist Dedre Gentner's structure-mapping theory, published in 1983, holds that an analogy works by carrying the relationships from a familiar subject over to an unfamiliar one. The strongest analogies share a system of connected relations, whatever their surface differences. A listener who already understands the first subject gets the second one's structure without being taught it.
Where did 'X meets Y' movie pitches start?
Hollywood's short pitch lines are often called high concept. The Player, Robert Altman's 1992 satire of the film business, mocked the habit with pitches like Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman. Real pitches work the same way: Speed is often described as Die Hard on a bus, and Alien as Jaws in space.
Why can't experts see how confusing they are?
In 1990, Stanford graduate student Elizabeth Newton asked people to tap out well-known songs while listeners tried to name them. The tappers predicted that listeners would guess about half the songs, but listeners guessed 3 out of 120, or 2.5 percent. Psychologists call this gap the curse of knowledge.
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