Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.
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The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.
I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.
I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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