Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
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Do not be distracted by surfaces; it is in the depths that all laws obtain.
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet (Penguin Little Black Classics)
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... See more
Luca Pitoni is the author of Seeking Beauty, an in-depth study of the book cover designer Anita Klinz,
“I don’t really pursue a destination,” he said. “I pursue a direction.”
Brie Wolfson • Flounder Mode
I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!) as well as the value of connoisseurship and curation in a culture where unthinking automation has left us feeling drowned in a deluge of content.
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the... See more
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the... See more
well lol i finally got laid off...but on the bright side.......
If you want your story to linger with your audience (and that should be your goal), you should end in a place that is moving, vulnerable, or revealing, or establishes connection with the audience.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn
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