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This use of narrative to simplify the complex is also true of memory. Human memory is ‘episodic’ (we tend to experience our messy pasts as a highly simplified sequences of causes and effects) and ‘autobiographical’ (those connected episodes are imbued with personal and moral meaning).
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
A Risky Promise
story is a sense-making device. It identifies a necessary ambition, defines challenges that are battling to keep us from achieving that ambition, and provides a plan to help us conquer those challenges.
Donald Miller • Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
Narrative: Narrative is a text that makes its point primarily by telling a story.
Ray Lubeck • Reading the Bible for a Change, Second Edition: Understanding and Responding to God's Word
The way Bob sees it, a story is ‘a design in five parts’, those elements being The Inciting Event, which sets everything in motion (e.g. boy meets girl), Progressive Complications (boy discovers girl’s dad works for Russian mafia), Crisis (boy and girl inadvertently uncover mafia dad’s evil plot to blackmail UN with stolen plutonium), Climax (girlf
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