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By engaging the store owners as teachers, the McDermotts were able to build a network of expert mentors who wanted to see the neophytes win.

The McDermott sisters took advantage of their inexperience to learn all they could.

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They consciously exploit the power differential between pitcher and catcher by asking directly and boldly for help—not in a desperate way, but with the confidence of a brilliant favorite, a talented student seeking sage advice from a beloved mentor.

Neophytes score points for daring to do the impossible, something catchers see as refreshing.

When it was Alan’s turn, he dumped four boxes of prototype cereal onto the mahogany conference table, to the stunned silence of the executives. Ignoring protocol, he began constructing an elaborate fort, all the while talking furiously about the qualities of the corn flour that kept the pieces and the structure together. Finally, he challenged the executives to see who could build the tallest tower. The executives so enjoyed the demonstration that they green-lighted Alan’s project.

He then proceeded to lead his catchers through an exciting, detailed narrative of his film, as a master storyteller would. At the end, the executives sat back, smiling, and told the writer they’d like to go ahead with his idea.

He wore black leather pants and a torn T-shirt, several earrings in each ear, and a tattoo on his slender arm.

Artists are particularly adept at conducting what physicists call “thought experiments,” inviting the audience into imaginary worlds.

improvise, a quality that allows them to adapt if a pitch begins to go awry

Catcher: I love it!

Showrunners tend to display charisma and wit in pitching, say, new design concepts to marketing, but they also demonstrate enough technical know-how to convince catchers that the ideas can be developed according to industry-standard practices and within resource constraints.

catchers to judge them as likable collaborators

To avoid fast elimination, successful pitchers—only 25% of those I have observed—turn the tables on the catchers by enrolling them in the creative process

Harry Potter’s Sorting Hat

When a person we don’t know pitches an idea to us, we search for visual and verbal matches with those implicit models, remembering only the characteristics that identify the pitcher as one type or another.

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Showrunners come off as professionals who combine creative inspiration with production know-how. Artists appear to be quirky and unpolished and to prefer the world of creative ideas to quotidian reality. Neophytes tend to be—or act as if they were—young, inexperienced, and naive.

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In those environments, the results were remarkably similar to what I had seen in the movie business.

I was able to discern just how quickly assessments of creative potential are made in these high-stakes exchanges.

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