Storytelling
“When researching strategies, emphasize patterns over stories. One person succeeding means nothing. 100 people succeeding is a signal.
When explaining strategies, emphasize stories over patterns. People forget numbers and charts. Everyone remembers a great story.”
When explaining strategies, emphasize stories over patterns. People forget numbers and charts. Everyone remembers a great story.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: Prioritization, making the most of what you have, and reading as a form of travel
Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.”
Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
You can't make a movie and say, "It was all a big accident." No, it has to be a conspiracy, people plotting together, because a story is about intention. A story is not about spontaneous order or complex human institutions which are the product of human action but not of human design. No, a story is about evil people plotting together. So you hear ... See more
Tyler Cowen • Be suspicious of stories | Tyler Cowen | TEDxMidAtlantic
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