Old vs. New Contrast
Open by stacking rapid old-vs-new pairings across several dimensions, then reveal the framework or mechanism that explains why the shift happened.
When
Use this when your audience holds an outdated belief or habit and you need to make the gap obvious fast — before teaching the new framework that replaces it.
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Example opener
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“Old resumes listed job duties. New resumes tell a single story of impact. Old resumes were static PDFs. New resumes are interactive portfolios. Old resumes were scanned by humans. New resumes are parsed by AI. Here's the framework behind the shift.”
- 01State what the old version used to do or believe in one declarative sentence.
- 02Immediately pair it with what the new version does now, creating a clean binary.
- 03Stack two more old/new pairings across different dimensions to build a pattern.
- 04Close by naming the framework or mechanism that explains the shift.
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