If This American Life explained the financial crisis in an hour so that four million people improved on a written test on the subject, it’s clear you can explain complicated material from near-scratch.
That’s an inspiring goal, but it might be worth pointing out that the This American Life episode was extraordinary—when I heard it, it seemed immediately obvious that this was the most impressively clear and efficient hour I’d heard in the course of a lot of years of listening to NPR.
I’m not saying it’s so magical that it can’t be equaled, I’m saying that it might be worth studying.
That’s an inspiring goal, but it might be worth pointing out that the This American Life episode was extraordinary—when I heard it, it seemed immediately obvious that this was the most impressively clear and efficient hour I’d heard in the course of a lot of years of listening to NPR.
I’m not saying it’s so magical that it can’t be equaled, I’m saying that it might be worth studying.