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Paul "Triple H" Levesque

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591 total appearances

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

If you're present, if you're just there and you're on your phone the whole time or taking calls or not really paying attention, it's not worth it anyway for them.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

So, um, and kids sense that and they feel it and every, everybody does you, you know, so, um, be present in whatever it is you're doing.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

Well, it's a funny thing because what we do is it's all those things wrapped up into one, but everything is a version of that.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

What is sports?

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

It's entertainment.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

If you're not playing it, it's entertainment.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

You're watching it.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

You're being entertained, right?

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

So if you're watching combat sport, the truth is not that many people are

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

incredibly like adept at the science or the intricacies of what they're doing they might like to think that they are but like you know they don't know everything about football they don't know everything about basketball they don't know everything about the fight game whether it be mma or boxing but they know the stories that lead you into it

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

The biggest market sports teams, when they compete against each other, because there's a history there, there's a storied rivalry, they will say.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

Story is the key word.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

Those markets and those stories do better business.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

A football game is just a football game.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

If you know who's playing and you're invested, if you go to a high school football game and you know nobody playing, you don't really care.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

If your kid is playing,

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

And you know the story going in, like you're invested in that.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

It's the same for what we do.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

So with WWE, it's about the story.

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TED Talks Daily
Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

We don't necessarily, the matches are absolutely important, delivering on the athleticism and the excitement and the spectacle of what we do.

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