story-world
Some Questions to Reflect or Journal On
- What’s a dominant narrative in your industry or community that no longer serves?
- What alternative story do you wish more people believed?
- Where in your work could you tell a bolder, truer, more hopeful story?
- What story are you living right now — and is it one you chose?
Elena Vasileva • The Role of Storytelling in Systemic Change
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
We understand a story’s meaning, in part, by tracking its causality, and a story’s power stems from our sense that its causality is truthful, which is to say, that its internal logic is solid.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
We’re all just telling ourselves stories about feelings we have, and feelings we remember, and feelings yet to come.
Put the resistance to work for you
That narrative of elusive satisfaction isn’t just something we’re repeatedly being told; it is a story we’re literally buying into all the time.
Kurt Armstrong • Repair and Remain
“We live in a world shaped by stories. Stories are the threads of our lives and the fabric of human cultures. A story can unite or divide people(s), obscure issues, or spotlight new perspectives. A story can inform or deceive, enlighten or entertain, or even do all of the above. Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives,... See more
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
The issue isn’t simply that scenes without cause and effect tend to be boring. Plots that play too loose with cause and effect risk becoming confusing, because they’re not speaking in the brain’s language.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
This is what storytellers do. They create moments of unexpected change that seize the attention of their protagonists and, by extension, their readers and viewers.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
In his paper ‘The Psychology of Curiosity’, Loewenstein breaks down four ways of involuntarily inducing curiosity in humans: (1) the ‘posing of a question or presentation of a puzzle’; (2) ‘exposure to a sequence of events with an anticipated but unknown resolution’; (3) ‘the violation of expectations that triggers a search for an explanation’; (4)
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