Lessons are for kids, themes are for adults. We want to build highlighters into themes…

What are the concepts, highlighters, principles, and messages that we want to focus on? What are the "tools" we are passing along through our content?

Firstly, it is worth mentioning that we should judge which highlighters to use based on two verticals:

Telos Highlighters

What is a “highlighter” specifically? A highlighter is a simple, effective point that we wish to make. They’re articulated concisely (or visually represented quickly) in consideration of the pacing we require for our videos.

Highlighters can be:

• a distillation of a concept (like cognitive bias)
• a scene depicting a particular principle (how do we know what we know?)
• a message (soldiers too are manipulated and positioned by those in power, so we should be wary of blaming them for decisions their leaders make)

Overall, highlighters are points that (we believe) when understood by a large percentage of people (our viewers), will help them to re-orient their perspective of the world and engage with it in a more critically minded way.

To use the well-known metaphor - "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."

Our goal with highlighters is to take a popular geopolitical scenario, which gets attention. And then provide a highlighter that doesn’t only relate to the geopolitical scenario (e.g. war), but is a lesson a viewer can use when looking at any other scenario (e.g. war).

Making a person wiser not about 1 conflict, but all future conflicts. A wiser person to all their systematic decision making in life.

• How to deliver a highlighter, in a subtle but effective way, is explained here:

• Examples of MrSpherical doing it well (Oliver’s favourites)

• Example for Atrium