#storytelling
Synthesis as art:
- “First of all, synthesizing involves artistry . To create a work or treatment of significant size and to convey it effectively to others requires a sense of form, of arrangement of parts, of the attention and predilection of audiences, of launching, development, and closure . All of these skills are identified particularly with th
Howard Gardner • A Look Inside “A Synthesizing Mind” by Howard Gardner (Book Summary)
You're under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
Prof. Feynmanx.com“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer
beginnings always hide themselves in ends
“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.”
~ Roger Schank
Jim O'Shaughnessyx.comOpinion | When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever
Maria Flynnnytimes.com
I’m convinced that storytelling will be the most differentiating business skill of the 21st century.
Sari Azout • From Product/Market Fit to Language/Market Fit: A New Brand Storytelling Framework
We are all engaged in two projects: living life, and telling stories about it. Our lives as lived are often chaotic, jumbled, aimless. They suggest no obvious purpose. Think of William James’s “blooming, buzzing confusion,” or what Joan Didion called “the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” We make this chaos workable, as Didio... See more
Jake Orthwein • Why Frame Problems? — Frame Problems
