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“All of life is lived through story.” : Bryan Delaney

  • Posted on March 22, 2014
  • He Says/She Says

“All of life is lived through story…Story is how we make meaning of our lives.  Every waking moment we’re bombarded by story,” said playwright Bryan Delaney, speaking to an audience in the Round Room at Dublin’s Mansion House during the March 17th, 2014 event We…

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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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The Relevance of Storytelling in Your Job Search

  • Posted on October 4, 2011February 27, 2014
  • Storytraining

This article proposes that job seekers can make themselves more memorable and compelling by forming a (true-to-life) story out of their experiences. I suspect this holds true, but I would add that it’s crucial to make the company you’re applying for integral to the story,…

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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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In Others’ Words: Treading the Stories’ Paths

  • Posted on October 6, 2010March 4, 2014
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“[The very existence of stories] overlays a faint but insistent pattern on the chaos that is history.  Stories etch grooves deep enough for people to follow in the same way that water follows certain paths down a mountainside.  And every time fresh actors tread the…

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The Stories We Tell: Manipulating Image

  • Posted on June 26, 2010December 6, 2013
  • Storytraining

You’ve heard about the Rolling Stone article about General McChrystal.  It’s all over the news, and everyone seems to have an opinion about how McChrystal could have had such massively ‘poor judgment.’  A coworker of mine suggested that he might have been deliberate about stepping…

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In Others’ Words: Building Ourselves Out of Stories

  • Posted on June 6, 2010February 27, 2014
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“We all become what we pretend to be….  It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head.  Always.  All the time.  That story makes you what you are.  We build ourselves out of that story.”  (Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind…

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