1- Unglamorous can be stronger/ better than glamorous.
Example of a demonstration for this concept:
Mosquitoes are more deadly than lions
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Most-Lethal-Animal-Mosquito-Week
2- A similar over-lapping concept is Low-hanging fruits: Easier action can lead to higher rewards than more difficult action. For example, playing basketball is enjoyable for me. It doesn’t take much motivation to get me going. Showering in icy cold water is painful. Yet, it could be the case that the impact of playing basketball is actually healthier than icy cold showering (just giving this as an example. I could then show a video of someone swimming in icy cold water).
My Request: Suggest Demonstrations for this Concept
I'm looking for resources (videos, pictures, games, activities, articles etc..) that would explain or illustrate (this) concept in an engaging and/or simple way especially to a lay audience. It could be a straightforward explanation like this A video explaining the concept "Co-relation does not equal causation"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxSUqr3ouYA
where the original intent of the video is to explain this concept. Or ,You can be creative; this illustration does not need to be originally made to explain this concept. The analogy can be made independently of the original intention of the resource. For example, if the concept is flexibility in your career, I can find a video of a person demonstrating physical flexibility even though the original intent of the video is not about career flexibility. (For more on what I mean by concept-demonstrating resources, see https://www.researchgate.net/post/List_of_Concept-Demonstrating_Resources
Please put your suggestion in the comments section below.
Hashem,
I am not sure if you are looking for logical statements or actual examples.
If REAL examples, here are three:
(1) Publishing in many pedagogical journals is fast and easy. They often have preset rules about how the writeup should be, etc. and you can write a pedagogical article up in a weekend. When I was a young scholar I wrote one or two every year about class activities, etc. It gets your name seen, can be an easy and free ticket to a conference when you "need a paper" to get funded, and takes nothing away from your more important research.
(2) Look for book chapters on topics you have expertise in. They are almost always less competitive than an article, and once you have a reputation in an area are very easy to get.
(3) Look for special issues in journals, they are almost always substantially less competitive than a regular publication in the same journal.
If you are looking for illustrations of the concept, the Turtle and the Hare parable is one. The "Melanoma has killed more people than war" is another. And, Sun Tzu wrote: “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
Illustrate he concept by comparative question:
1. Is it better to reach for only for the goals you can easily achiece or is it better to extend your ideas to new heights and try to develop new ideas and concepts that you might have to struggle with before you finally grasp the ideas and to be able to apply them.
You could use examples of "gaming the system", especially related to performance goals.
Hashem,
I am not sure if you are looking for logical statements or actual examples.
If REAL examples, here are three:
(1) Publishing in many pedagogical journals is fast and easy. They often have preset rules about how the writeup should be, etc. and you can write a pedagogical article up in a weekend. When I was a young scholar I wrote one or two every year about class activities, etc. It gets your name seen, can be an easy and free ticket to a conference when you "need a paper" to get funded, and takes nothing away from your more important research.
(2) Look for book chapters on topics you have expertise in. They are almost always less competitive than an article, and once you have a reputation in an area are very easy to get.
(3) Look for special issues in journals, they are almost always substantially less competitive than a regular publication in the same journal.
If you are looking for illustrations of the concept, the Turtle and the Hare parable is one. The "Melanoma has killed more people than war" is another. And, Sun Tzu wrote: “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
Hashem, I know this is late to the table but hopefully it will provide some value. Michael had excellent feedback for all academics which I am probably going to incorporate before the end of the month (Thank You!). If the audience is a lay professional audience then they are probably already familiar with the Pareto principle (also called the 80/20 rule). Examples are numbers (see below). If they are students and they are similar to mine many of them procrastinate extensively and are already highly proficient in application of low hanging fruit. They look for low hanging fruit on class assignments (or test study material) that will generate return in a few hours rather than the weeks of commitment for which the assignments were designed.
https://management.simplicable.com/management/new/examples-of-the-pareto-principle
https://www.heflo.com/blog/business-management/pareto-80-20-rule-examples/
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