For example, in many areas of culture, the influence of television is depressingly conservative: stage comedies are encouraged to become more like sitcoms in order to attract stars from the box and The X Factor notoriously promotes the idea that talent in pop music involves singing old songs less well than the original artists rather than attempting something new and different.
Nevertheless, we give the Quest designers points for bravely attempting something new.
As editors, attempting something new and different is what keeps our jobs interesting".
Many scars incorporate all that's scary, that's worrisome, that's painful, that's awful -- reminders of fear and worry of 'what if,' and the hope and prayer of 'what now.' And some scars, many -- from childbirth, to sports, to a personal deep life passion show the beauty of a life well lived, a life of risks, a life of attempting something new.
In fact many people are so scared of failure; they will not even attempt to try something new.
"Rubicon," a 1970s-style spy thriller, was a disappointment that was quickly canceled, but it was at least a noble attempt to try something new.
Serial was always meant to be experimental, starting with its serialized format, and it seems clear that season two was another attempt to try something new in podcasting – very, very long form reporting of a complicated case.
And that brings us to "The Slap," which, I guess, is NBC's attempt to try something new and different.
It's best to see experimentation as a continuum, ranging from the messiness of attempts to try something new to experiments using the best available social science, such as randomised controlled trials.
