The video owner has disabled playback on external websites.
This video is no longer available on YouTube.
This video cannot be played right now.
Watch on YouTube
The magical science of storytelling | David JP Phillips | TEDxStockholm
학습 통계
CEFR 레벨
난이도
자막 (316 세그먼트)
Translator: Florencia Bracamonte Reviewer: Tanya Cushman
In 2009, a man, a journalist by the name Rob Walker,
wanted to find out this:
Is storytelling really the most powerful tool of all?
And in order to do this,
he went on his computer, and he bought 200 objects from eBay.
And the average price of the objects was about one dollar.
He then called 200 authors, and he asked them,
"Hey, would you like to be part of the 'significant object study'?
Which means that I would like you to write a story to one of the objects."
And 200 authors said yes.
So there he had 200 objects, he had 200 stories,
and I assume that it was with nail-biting anticipation
that he went on eBay again with all the 200 objects.
Would there be a difference? Would there be a change?
Do you think there was a change?
One of the objects was this,
this beautiful horse's head.
There we go.
The beautiful horse's head.
Now, this beautiful horse's head was bought for 99¢
and was sold, when the story was added, for $62.95.
(Laughter)
That is a slight increase of 6395%.
So, was this a one-off situation?
Not really,
because he bought the 200 objects for a total of $129,
selling them for $8000.
Now, that's insane.
But you know what's even more intellectually challenging to understand?
How can you and I
go to the movies and pay good money to watch movies like James Bond,
[that] are absolutely unrealistic?
And we sit there; we enjoy the movie.
And some of us, we really enjoy the movie.
And we leave the theater, going like, "God, what a man!
I would like to be more like him.
I'd like to walk like him. I'd like to talk like him.
I like Bond.
(Laughter)
I wonder how I could be more like Bond."
And then this weird revelation hits you like from nowhere,
and you come up with a brilliant idea to walk to a watchmaker shop.
And wow! It just happens to be an Omega watch in that shop
that resembles the one that Bond was wearing in the movie.
And you pay $10,000 to put that watch on your wrist.
And you leave that store feeling more like Bond.
How is that possible?
PQ Media tells us that 10.5 billion dollars
is turned over in product placement revenue every single year.
How is it possible for you to be so easily tricked
by something so simple as a story?
Because you are tricked.
Well, it all comes down to one core thing,
and that is emotional investment.
The more emotionally invested you are in anything in your life,
the less critical and the less objectively observant you become.
And the greatest emotional investment of all
is falling in love.
Now, falling in love resembles a good story.
Do you remember the last time you fell in love?
Yeah? Good for you. It's a beautiful feeling, isn't it?
(Laughter)
Do you remember how you longed and how you yearned and how you dreamt?
전체 자막은 비디오 플레이어에서 이용 가능
댓글 (0)
로그인하여 댓글 달기인터랙티브 모드
퀴즈
정답:
관련 영상
Think Fast! with Dakota Johnson
Conan Plays Old Timey Baseball | Late Night with Conan O’Brien
I Built The World's Largest Lego Tower
"I have to...Jump?" | The MI7 scene everyone talked about
Doctor shortages in regional Australia continue to worsen with no relief in sight | ABC News
TEDx Talks
퀴즈
정답:
영상을 보면서 퀴즈가 나타납니다
암기 팁
이 영상에서
무료로 언어 학습
