narrative change
Imagining and articulating possibilities is how all flourishing futures begin. Stories are the origination point of world-building.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Multiple stories build and connect to form a larger narrative. That narrative can be a road map for a society, a nation. And unlike a story which is about someone else and has an ending, a narrative is opened ended and impacted by your actions. A narrative gives a call to action and a roadmap to the future. For many it creates their entire operatin
... See moreTaryn O'Neill • The 4th Act — A New Narrative.
People think in stories. Stories ground ideas in human experience and mint new metaphors that reveal how the world is changing
Eliot Peper • The Possibility Engine
Stories are how we gain a sense of control of the future because they supply us with a role in the story, a vector of meaning at every beat, and the promise of more meaning to come.
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
So as I approach the mystery of telling these stories again, the uncertainty of working into my mythmaking, I wonder if we could do something similar with our own narratives. What are we bored by, what needs to stay buried? What deserves to be re-imagined, re-seeded, re-beheld? That’s where the joyful work is. I’m handing you a spade.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
Winger-Bearskin writes, “today the stories we tell are embedded in networks and pixels instead of wampum and rivers, but they may still have the power to last through seven generations, to influence the lives of my great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren, for the people I do not yet know, and those I have only met in dreams.”
Daniela Bologna • Storytelling as Gift, Storytelling as Currency
‘story’ in the sense I mean it: a foundational narrative that shapes every aspect of our world. Everything we build, literally and metaphorically, from the physical infrastructure of our society to our institutions and all the products of culture, have their roots in the story and reflect its logic back to us. The story surrounds us on a daily basi
... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
While the nature of the process is a trade, to quote from a block I wrote, I would prefer to think of telling a story as “an open-ended contract, just like a promise or a gift,” rather than an unrippling transaction or commodity.