A hitch in your step
Oh, hi friends!
When you get a hitch in your step, what do you do?
Sometimes I’ll try to run faster.
Sometimes I’ll go home and take a nap.
Rarely, I’ll shake out my leg and try to walk as normally as possible.
A bad meeting or missed deadline or late newsletter is just a hitch.
Shake it out. You’ll be back to normal in no time.
“Getting somewhere on foot relativizes distance. What appears a stone’s throw away becomes a test of will power and because of this, destination runs often stay with me as a dream. I have flashes of feeling, smells and sounds. I remember low points, high points, and a narrative emerges.”
My friend Jake Slovis ran over to New Jersey and wrote about the journey for AWAY’s excellent new travel site. It’s so true—every run has a narrative. But so does every other major experience in your life. Sometimes it helps to remember the high points and low points are always part of a bigger picture.
The trailer for RBG—the documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in theaters May 4—is ridiculously good.
I’ve always been fascinated by how movie trailers can make a person feel so much in two minutes. My friend Lauren Streib talked to neuroscientist and business professor Moran Cerf about the connection between film marketing and the brain. This quote in particular hit me:
“Good trailers make all brains look alike,” Moran explains. “A good filmmaker can create an experience that will take over your brain. It is so powerful that it is actually working the same way on every other person that watches the movie. It is as if a content creator—whether a filmmaker, composer, or painter—is able to tap into the brains of multiple people (young, old, men, women, etc.) and recruit their brains in a similar fashion, regardless of idiosyncrasies. That is the magic talent of Hitchcock, Mozart, and Cézanne. They were able to, metaphorically, understand everyone’s brainwaves, and align their creation with their audiences. That is a key component of genius.”
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara