Life lessons from an ad man, Rory Sutherland, TED Global 2009
• Introduction: include the talk’s title, the name of the speaker, the date, and the source. Describe the main idea in your own words. This is the TED talk of Life lessons from an ad man, by Rory Sutherland , in July 2009. Rory Sutherland is humorously talking about how conceptual and abstract an advertisement is. That means, to acheive a particular goal, rather than changing the reality, an advertisement changes how people think and feel. • Main body (as many paragraphs as needed): describe the important points of the talk. Rory gave a lot of examples and stories of how an advertisement works. He compared it with placebo. But, actually, the point of placebo education is interesting. How many problems of life can be solved actually by tinkering with perception, rather than that tedious, hardworking and messy business of actually trying to change reality? First of all, • Conclusion: summarize the points made