storytelling
It’s not that we should be wary of stories themselves; rather, we should be wary of losing ourselves inside them. We need to acknowledge how stories can become tidal waves that overpower us and swallow us whole. We can become the characters that others assign to us, unwittingly performing a role that constrains our self-aware choices. Without knowi
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Keely Adler added 10d ago
The Rising Importance of the Great Art of Storytelling - Above the Crowd
by Bill Gurley
phoebe added 2mo ago
phoebe added 2mo ago
The story is the way the story is told.
from The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question: “What makes a good story?” They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard: “If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats… you got something pretty boring. What should happen between every beat you’ve written... See more
alex added 4mo ago
Tell the internet a story
alex added 4mo ago
I make my own stories and I'm very obsessed with not being nostalgic, because I think that 90 percent of the world is too nostalgic. They don't have the courage to face the present and make stories that are relevant today, about life today...
– Guillermo del Toro
gabriel added 5mo ago
Sendak understood that stories can be scary. He believed that we should all—kids and adults alike—experience stories that deliver encounters with all the emotions available to us; that scary stories are how we become prepared for any eventuality. Indeed, this is the very reason we need stories. We don’t do well with uncertainty, and so we seek out
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
Stories are a calm anchor amid the storm of uncertainty. And in uncertain in-between times, the stories we tell ourselves are powerful frameworks that help us work out who we are in the present moment and what we value. They lure us into becoming our aspirational selves.
from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
alex added 5mo ago