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Short film:. Obvious to you. Amazing to others. DICTATION TIME! Listen to part of the transcript and write. Can you come up with examples of extreme adjectives?. Obvious to you. Amazing to others.

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  1. Short film: Obvious to you. Amazing to others.

  2. DICTATION TIME! Listen to part of the transcript and write.

  3. Can you come up with examples of extreme adjectives?

  4. Obvious to you. Amazing to others. • You will hear some of these strong adjectives on a short film titled Obvious to you. Amazing to others. What do you think the video will be about? Link: https://vimeo.com/25494440

  5. Discuss the following questions: • Do you agree with the narrator when he says we are bad judges of our own creations? • Have you ever thought “my ideas are so obvious. I'll never be as inventive as that.”? • Do you think you have be a genius to be creative? • Do you think we are smarter than we believe we are?

  6. TRANSCRIPT Any creator of anything knows this feeling: You experience someone else's innovative work. It's beautiful, brilliant, breath-taking. You're stunned. Their ideas are unexpected and surprising, but perfect. You think, “I never would have thought of that. How do they even come up with that? It's genius!” Afterwards, you think, “My ideas are so obvious. I'll never be as inventive as that.” I get this feeling often. Amazing books, music, movies, or even amazing conversations. I'm in awe at how the creator thinks like that. I'm humbled. But I continue to do my work. I tell my little tales. I share my point of view. Nothing spectacular. Just my ordinary thoughts. One day someone emailed me and said, “I never would have thought of that. How did you even come up with that? It's genius!” Of course I disagreed, and explained why it was nothing special. But afterwards, I realized something surprisingly profound: Everybody's ideas seem obvious to them. I'll bet even John Coltrane or Richard Feynman felt that everything they were playing or saying was pretty obvious. So maybe what's obvious to me is amazing to someone else? Hit songwriters, in interviews, often admit that their most successful hit song was one they thought was just stupid, even not worth recording. We're clearly a bad judge of our own creations. We should just put it out and let the world decide. Are you holding back something that seems too obvious to share?

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