The Power Of Storytellers To Shape Our World
In books such as The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall, there is copious research about how story sets us humans apart from animals. Even in our dreams, our subconscious is busy ordering events into narratives.
Jyoti Guptara • Business Storytelling From Hype to Hack
We are always telling stories, whether we realize it or not. We might as well get good at it. Good stories win people over. They provoke and inspire and inflame the human spirit. It’s a tremendous source of power.
visakan veerasamy • a matryoshka of possibilities
Of all genres of stories, those that create intersubjective realities have been the most crucial for the development of large-scale human networks.
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths – by telling different stories.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
C’est donc grâce aux histoires, à leur capacité à donner du sens et à fédérer, que nous sommes devenus ce que nous sommes3. Et, au sein de notre espèce, ce sont bien ceux qui racontent les meilleures histoires qui accèdent le plus au pouvoir. C’est votre tour.
Victor Ferry • 12 leçons de rhétorique pour prendre pouvoir: Mettez vos idées en discours et votre public en mouvement (French Edition)
Instead of building a network from human-to-human chains alone—as the Neanderthals, for example, did—stories provided Homo sapiens with a new type of chain: human-to-story chains. In order to cooperate, Sapiens no longer had to know each other personally; they just had to know the same story.