The danger is expectations. It’s easy to overhype things. It’s easy to believe something should happen the way you want it to happen.
Sometimes you’re right.
Sometimes you’re wrong.
And sometimes that just isn’t what the creator was going for.
If someone says “Cake is coming” and you start to think about delicious chocolate cake with layers of chocolate and coffee, topped with a light whipped frosting, and then a carrot cake shows up, it doesn’t mean the carrot cake is bad. It just means it wasn’t what you were expecting. Now this metaphor is bad because if I implied a chocolate cake, I should probably deliver a chocolate cake. It’s unfair to tease one thing, then offer something completely different. In reality the cake isn’t carrot, it’s chocolate but the coffee flavor is darker than you expected or the frosting is heavier.
The danger is expectations. It’s easy to overhype things. It’s easy to believe something should happen the way you want it to happen.
Sometimes you’re right.
Sometimes you’re wrong.
And sometimes that just isn’t what the creator was going for.
If someone says “Cake is coming” and you start to think about delicious chocolate cake with layers of chocolate and coffee, topped with a light whipped frosting, and then a carrot cake shows up, it doesn’t mean the carrot cake is bad. It just means it wasn’t what you were expecting. Now this metaphor is bad because if I implied a chocolate cake, I should probably deliver a chocolate cake. It’s unfair to tease one thing, then offer something completely different. In reality the cake isn’t carrot, it’s chocolate but the coffee flavor is darker than you expected or the frosting is heavier.