{"id":73766,"date":"2015-09-04T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T10:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=73766"},"modified":"2015-09-04T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T10:46:41","slug":"franklin-leonard-the-realists-guide-to-changing-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=73766","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Leonard: The Realist&#8217;s Guide To Changing the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/130898946\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Franklin Leonard: The Realist&#039;s Guide To Changing the World\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhile in college, Franklin Leonard was convinced he was going to change the world. &#8220;I went to college debating between pursuing the sciences, where I was sure that I was going to cure cancer,&#8221; he says. &#8220;And going into politics where I was sure I was going to find, nurture, help elect, and run policy for the next great liberal president.&#8221; The stint in politics didn&#8217;t work out, and Leonard was left adrift before eventually moving to Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>He soon realized once more how difficult it can be to enact global change. That&#8217;s when, almost accidentally, he founded The Black List, a collection of the industries top-unproduced scripts. Today, films on the list have been seen by millions of people around the globe, earned over $25 billion dollars, and have been nominated for 223 Academy Awards (and have won 43). In his talk, Leonard explains a shift in his perspective on what it really means to change the world, and why it&#8217;s better to start small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in college, Franklin Leonard was convinced he was going to change the world. &#8220;I went to college debating between pursuing the sciences, where I was sure that I was going to cure cancer,&#8221; he says. &#8220;And going into politics where I was sure I was going to find, nurture, help elect, and run policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":112260,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=112260","url_meta":{"origin":73766,"position":0},"title":"Franklin Leonard: The Realist\u2019s Guide\u2026","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"04\/09\/2015","format":"video","excerpt":"Franklin Leonard: The Realist\u2019s Guide To Changing the\u00a0World While in college, Franklin Leonard was convinced he was going to change the world. \u201cI went to college debating between pursuing the sciences, where I was sure that I was going to cure cancer,\u201d he says.(Source: https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;all other stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136917,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=136917","url_meta":{"origin":73766,"position":1},"title":"How to Be a Better Human: How to challenge conventional wisdom \u2014 and change any industry","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"16\/03\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/how_to_be_a_better_human_how_to_challenge_conventional_wisdom_and_change_any_industry Do you think Hollywood needs to change? 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