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Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: Can a Moonshot Approach to Mental Health Work? | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 111
Published on August 8, 2023
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Sonnets
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So what we did at X is we had this image of a monkey on a pedestal, and the story was: imagine youโre trying to train a monkey to recite Shakespeare's sonnets while standing on a pedestal; what do you work on first? The monkey training or the pedestal?
Obi Felton uses a metaphor of training a monkey to recite Shakespeare's sonnets to illustrate X's strategy of tackling the hardest part of a problem first. This emphasizes the importance of focusing on the core challenge (the monkey) before addressing the peripheral elements (the pedestal).