“I call this the stranger test where after one or two sets, I’ll hand them my phone. I’ll be like, do you mind watching the first 10 seconds of a video I just made?”

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Conduct a "stranger test" at the gym by showing strangers the first 10 seconds of a video on his phone and gauging their reaction

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“We are putting in 10 hours of video editing. Of those 10 hours, four to five of those hours are gonna be spent on the first 30 seconds.”
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“Of those 10 hours, four to five of those hours are going to be spent on the first 30 seconds to one minute of that video.”
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