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Category: Storywire

The Neuroscience of Your Brain on Fiction

  • Posted on April 12, 2012February 27, 2014
  • Storywire

A local storyteller here in Vermont used to say, “Stories teach us to be human.”  This piece from the New York Times backs up that statement using findings from psychology and neuroscience. “Amid the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of…

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Princess Charming

  • Posted on March 29, 2012December 6, 2013
  • Storytraining

In the Cracked.com article “5 Ways Modern Men are Trained to Hate Women,” David Wong proposes that the stories we tell teach men that society owes them a hot chick.  He writes: We were told this by every movie, TV show, novel, comic book, video…

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Remembering the Gift

  • Posted on January 31, 2012February 27, 2014
  • Storywire

“Einstein’s thinking somehow presaged this thing about the structure of the brain. He said, ‘The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.’ We have created a society that honors the servant, but has forgotten the gift.” -Iain McGilchrist

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"We Are a Storytelling Species"

  • Posted on September 13, 2011February 27, 2014
  • Storywire

In this article on poynter.org, Roy Peter Clark discusses 9/11/2001 as the inciting incident in the story America is currently acting out.

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Arts funding is jobs funding.

  • Posted on September 17, 2010December 6, 2013
  • Storytraining

Today, just a link.  If you have a Facebook account, check out this note: Recently, I had dinner with some lovely people and the conversation turned, as it so often does these days, to politics and economics.  I mentioned the importance of arts funding, and…

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Stories in Fundraising

  • Posted on November 13, 2009
  • Storywire

Here is an interesting reaction to a study showing that most fundraising letters forget – to their detriment – to tell the stories behind their cause. The very thorough can find the original study on this site.

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