Storytelling

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Speak Human

Fear is self-focused. Day to day, our fear is about us. What will happen if we give that speech, launch that project, get stuck in traffic, are eaten by an alligator...

And generosity is about others. “How can I help?”

Jumping in the water to save a struggling swimmer stops us from worrying about how we look in our suit or whether the water is cold. ... See more

Seth's Blog : Generosity and fear

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Ahn and Chi have made their name in the Vancouver dine-out scene. They are doing two things fundementally right: storytelling and community building. https://anhandchi.com/

They define the name of the restaurant as:

Anh and Chi

[/ aĭŋ / ænd / tʃi/]: noun / conjunction / noun

1. Elder brother and elder sister of the same family;

2. respectful

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well-arranged words rearrange reality.

Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet

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And so we do. But our notebooks give us away, for however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable “I.” We are not talk ing here about the kind of notebook that is patently for public consump tion, a structural conceit for binding together a series of grace... See more

Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion

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We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or to hate, to see or be blind. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and to hear silence, to name them, and the

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“To a certain extent, stories can enclose you and lock into a narrative. But to a certain extent, stories give you the means of escape. There is always new stories to tell.” — Scott narrates in the Hollywood Con Queen documentary

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“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

—Terry Pratchett

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