Reading this book equips you with the knowledge to choose the right story for your audience and effectively use storytelling to communicate and build relationships. This book also emphasizes the importance of telling a story; to deliver a memorable experience and produce an emotional response from audiences.

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As a kid I used to sit around the table, hearing my French grandparents share stories about life during the Second World War and helping the French Resistance movement. This book will give you a better insight in yourself, which will ultimately help you shape your stories in a better way to better bring across the message you want to spread in this world. In a rich and lively picture language, ancient myths, wisdom tales, life stories and spontaneously created stories are shared in an appreciative way, where everyone has a voice. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book – something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.During times of conflict, storytelling dedicated to peace and reconciliation has proven successful in creating a common ground between people of all ages, from different cultures and disparate world views. Description: Marcus Aurelius was a Roman leader who was the mightiest man on the planet 2300 years ago. Less implying all religions are fictions because this is some peoples beliefs, and it didn't need to be stated that way to get the point across that it wanted to. We have four primary types of storytelling, which are oral, written, visual, and performative, all of which are presented differently and require different storytelling skills.

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The spirituality of imperfection, steeped in the rich traditions of the Hebrew prophets and Greek thinkers, Buddhist sages and Christian disciples, is a message as timeless as it is timely.In his book Daemon Voices, he explores his own experience with storytelling alongside lessons from literary history, reaching profound conclusions about the nature of narrative. Also, going back to the 'change' theme, complex characters are generally passing through a 'change of status' of some kind. B. Du Bois famously argued that whiteness served as a “public and psychological wage,” delivering to poor whites a valuable social status derived from their classification as “not-black. Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird is an invaluable guide to navigating those spaces, and discovering how your own larger life can impact the stories you tell.

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There’s not just a world of difference, but a world of different potential between the two sentences. When readers see traits they share with characters in stories, they become invested in the outcome which keeps them reading. The author, a professional storyteller, provides actual stories plus chapters on how to tell a story, not just read it; activities for students; and bulliten board ideas. Isn’t it true that you have at least one co-worker that captivates the attention of everyone around?Creatives sometimes need pragmatism) insight into the 'science' of stories, their structures and how they work on a more pratical level, Storr really went with the science stuff.