Intuition uses your past experiences in combination with curiosity and connections with others to find the right path for you in both your personal and professional life.
Nick Nanton has an intuitive ability to find the story within the story that needed to be told like filming a raid in Haiti that rescued a number of people from a major sex trade, interviewing people with severe injuries who mustered hope and courage to become Paralympic athletes and dreamers who were shunned by others yet managed to change the world in their own way.
Bringing these stories to life on a screen not only captivated people around the world, but he was awarded a number of Emmys for these documentaries and continues to use his intuition to find the story within a story that needs to be told to help others find inspiration in their own lives.
Timestamps
- 00:00 - Videogram
- 01:00 - Introduction
- 01:20 - Nick introduces himself
- 02:54 - His definition of intuition and his intuitive signals
- 05:27 - Signals when ignoring intuition
- 12:12 - His opinion on why people go through herd mentality
- 16:12 - Putting the audience in the protagonist's shoes
- 21:53 - How he dives into a deeper conversation with an interviewee
- 25:48 - "The best conversation I can have is the best conversation in the room that day."
- 26:57 - Sharing the best stories he can find
- 28:23 - The whole idea of the film "The dreamer."
- 32:24 - What he loves about doing a documentary on Dick Vitale
- 35:01 - The story that really got him
- 40:28 - A conversation where the story shifts unexpectedly
- 42:25 - Making documentaries with an engaged team
- 44:54 - How he chooses his team
- 48:20 - The three things he structures his life around
- 51:23 - How his intuition works
- 54:11 - Getting authentic connections and reeling people in
- 56:13 - How his "log line" changed with his experiences
- 58:31 - Contacting Nick
- 58:44 - Conclusion
