Hide the vegetables Vs Make it tasty
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Hide the vegetables
Inspiration - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDFGkBE2O50
Basically how to help folks get closer to spirituality if they are not too much into it. (Also waiting to truly understand it that should be my goal or not?)
Animes do it all the time
- Package nice values(like perseverance, infinite possibilities, infinite capabilities, hope, humbleness, confidence, efforts, practice), wit, strategy, etc. And add twists and turns to keep it hooking.
- Have an array of characters which are complex in nature, not a direct good or evil, Evil needs a backstory to justify their reasoning, it should not be a simple idiot running at whims!
- Study different Anime styles that create hook or relay values in different ways!
- Extract and use the core essence of it
via Dialogue based stories
- Pick any conversational masterpiece like Bhagwat Gita or Bhagwati Sutra or The courage to be disliked
| Feature | The Bhagavad Gita | The Bhagavati Sutra |
|---|---|---|
| Tradition | Hinduism | Jainism |
| The Divine Teacher | Lord Krishna (An avatar of Vishnu) | Bhagavan Mahavira (A liberated Tirthankara) |
| The Inquiring Disciple | Arjuna (A warrior prince) | Gautama Swami (The chief Ganadhara) |
| The Setting | A chaotic battlefield (Kurukshetra) | A peaceful spiritual assembly (Samavasarana) |
| Tone of Dialogue | Crisis-driven: Arjuna is anxious and seeks immediate existential, moral, and duty-bound direction. | Encyclopedia-driven: Gautama asks thousands of structured, scientific, and philosophical questions. |
- Heavy use of Mental models#Steel manning , imagine what the viewer would think and place that as a question and answer that upfront
- Values embedded in a situation which is important for some characters, automatically hooks us and makes us find it important too.
- So even if someone is not curious about something, if they see a curious person asking and debating and getting all their questions answered, then the observer also becomes curious and hooked to the topic. Because then it is not about their own curiosity of topic, it is their curiosity to see how the subject's curiosity is going to get quenched
Make the veggies tasty
Veritasium cracked the code
- resource on the formula- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHhJ8_TJeNo
- A better in depth to break down further - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1tFT4smd6E
- Here derek says, it is better to make the veg tasty than to hide the veges - Watch full podcast for hacks, tricks and approach.
Mark Rober making science fun
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDFGkBE2O50
- Make science fun by theatrics, real world cases, curiosity triggering practical projects. And embeds the science lessons in it without