The Storytelling Book: Finding the Golden Thread in Your Communications (Concise Advice)

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I Am Not Perfect is a simple statement of profound truth, the first step toward understanding the human condition, for to deny your essential imperfection is to deny yourself and your own humanity. The spirituality of imperfection, steeped in the rich traditions of the Hebrew prophets and Greek thinkers, Buddhist sages and Christian disciples, is a message as timeless as it is timely. This insightful work draws on the wisdom stories of the ages to provide an extraordinary wellspring of hope and inspiration to anyone thirsting for spiritual growth and guidance in these troubled times. Instead of going on about acts like most books that get into plotting, the author considers that you should focus on figuring out different stages of that main character's development, in which he or she is a "different" person. Every successful story contains a moment of crisis within which the story’s core value(s) is stake. Instead Storr delivers much more. Drawing from a much wider range of psychology than I expected, including Personality, neurology and perception and how this impacts different elements of storytelling. So rather than a sort of interest piece of why people like stories anyone who reads this gets a fairly thorough bundle of both a 'how-to' book on writing and a thesis of the science of storytelling. We don’t need a complicated 12-step Hero’s Journey story structure for selling. Our prospects won’t have the time for our prose, and we can’t command the attention like a hundred dollar movie production. Instead, we have to engage our prospects’ imagination fast.

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One thing that really slowed me down was Storr’s use of pronouns. He mixes singular and plural like they were masculine and feminine. Michael Corleone is they/them, for example. At one point, he uses the word themself, a combination of singular and plural in a single word, which grabbed my attention and made me forget what I was reading. I actually stopped and posted it on a forum to see if anyone else had ever encountered it. Why bother to squeeze a tortured neuter pronoun in for someone the reader clearly knows is female? Sometimes it’s hard to know who he is referring to. His and their are not interchangeable. Why do we tell stories? What power lies within storytelling? From the great myths and legends to enchanting fairy tales, parables, fables, and folk tales, stories can have a great healing and educative power. They come from our subconscious and imagination, deep inside us. They have much to teach us about ourselves and the world we create around us.As a kid I used to sit around the table, hearing my French grandparents share stories about life during the Second World War and helping the French Resistance movement. I remember seeing my mum sitting down to interview my French grandad about his life and getting captured near Dunkirk as a young French soldier. That’s where my love for storytelling was born. By the age of 26 I had interviewed over 100+ government officials and business leaders across 7 countries. By 2021 my podcast The Unconventionalists won “best-interview podcast” at the podcasting for business awards. I wrote Glow in the Dark, to help entrepreneurs and business leaders impact the world with their story. You either already know Jon Dever and are excited by my mentioning of him or you’re completely unfamiliar with his work. One's stories should be built around a main character's fatal flaw. The book says plenty of interesting stuff about how to build those fatal flaws (the author calls them 'sacred flaws') and how they should affect the story. As the book moved on there were tonnes of outlines and references to other novels and movies, which (as I haven't read or seen all of them) went over my head a little. It also contains spoilers!!! I skipped over a lot of the quotes and outlines from books that I haven't read yet.

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For example, I committed to writing 1,000 words a day after Stephen King explained what he does in his book On Writing. In my case, I explained how Stephen King gave me a plan: I must write 1,000 words a day every day by eliminating other distractions. The brain enters this war state because a psychological tribal threat is a threat to its theory of control – its intricate network of millions of beliefs about how one thing causes another. Its theory of control tells it, among many other things, how to get what it most desires, namely connection and status. It forms the scaffolding of the model of the world and self it has been building since birth.Humans make a narrative out of anything. A painting drops from the wall, and we think there are hidden motives behind it. There is an extra susurrus in the darkness, and we see glowing eyes and figures despite there being none. Narration is our surviving power alone and as a group, and it's no wonder we are drawn into stories. And it's no wonder that there are specific kinds of stories that speak to us. Will Storr looked behind the science of storytelling through a social psychology's perspective, combining them with wisdom found in writing guidebooks. In Star Wars, Luke meets Obi-Wan Kenobi who then explains to Luke how he can escape his ordinary life and go on an adventure to rescue a princess.

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Nancy Duarte masterfully draws the connection between story and presentation. With meticulous care, she brought about undeniable proof of how a well-crafted speech works. This book is one of my earliest inspirations, and I’ve never met anyone else who’s even heard of it.Description: Storytelling is a big asset in great Ted Talks, they have to entertain the audience for 10 to 25 minutes. Great stories keep people focused on what you’re telling them. This book explains this concept perfectly and helps you to reshape your stories. In The Storytelling Animal,Gottschall aims to unravel some of the mystery of storytelling. He seeks to better understand how stories determine so much of the human experience. Storytelling has the power to engage, influence, teach and inspire listeners. That’s why we argue for organizations to build a storytelling culture and place storytelling at the heart of their learning programs. There’s an art to telling a good story, and we all know a good story when we hear one. But there’s also a science behind the art of storytelling. Have you ever wondered how come we could be so insensitive about the misfortune of others? How can we be so cold and unmoved reading calamities or disasters facts and figures? I suppose that the intent of the book could easily be subverted by reading it as a listening-guide. But that’s not its stated purpose. Besides, any piece by Harold Bloom provides more insight than the whizz bang psychological factoids presented by the author.

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Any embarrassing moment in your life, put in the context of a story, becomes a funny story to tell. The Storyteller’s Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don’tby Carmine Gallo A character in fiction, like a character in life, inhabits their own unique hallucinated world in which everything they see and touch comes with its own unique personal meaning." pg 41, ebookIt also does the nonfiction thing where it spoils a lot of book plots while explaining craft. I had to skip over some of the examples because I do want to eventually read those books Aunque en ocasiones su lenguaje de gurú literario me supera, pienso que la argumentación (sustentada en estudios, experimentos, informes, autores...) ayuda a que sea un punto de partida muy interesante que corrabora ideas como la importancia del descubrimiento del yo o el significado de las historias, o nos descubre ideas como esa alucinación colectiva que llamamos realidad. For B2B storytellers, your company or its product represents the offer. Step 8 The Guide Calls Your Character To Adventure It’s universal. Although a story may speak to a specific audience, niche or geography, anyone can follow it. The real problem is obviously the inability of vast numbers of story-listeners to discern how these modern bards of balderdash, hate and spite are being manipulated by the rhetorical technique, bad as it is, that they already employ.