This essay was inspired by an article in the October 2021 issue ofScientific Americanabout reading as therapy. It opened with the words, “Parents, teachers, and caregivers have long sworn by the magic of storytelling to calm and soothe kids.” Story (you can hear the capital “S” can’t...
Why Telling Stories Is More Important Than Ads Roller derby wasn’t just a workout for Micki Krimmel, it offered a sense of empowerment and inspired her to start Superfit Hero, an inclusive and body-positive apparel line. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Micki Krimmel shares her approach...
So, for example, one of your great excuses is, "Well, great careers are really and truly, for most people, just a matter of luck, so I'm going to stand around, I'm going to try to be lucky, and if I'm lucky, I'll have a great career. If not, I'll have a good career....
In it, a dad folds paper cranes out of gum wrappers for his daughter as she grows up. Before she moves away to college, he finds that she’s saved all of the origami cranes he’s made her. Just thinking about the ad makes me tear...
filmmaker Stephane Dunn knows the power of a good story. Whether it is recollections of her family’s history or the words of her favorite authors, Dunn knows the positive impact storytelling can have on a person—and the negative consequences when you don’t see yourself reflecte...
I've done this quite a bit in my own myth writing, gleefully plundering tropes and storytelling techniques from "real" mythology and folklore, not only because gut instinct told me that's the way the story had to be told, but more consciously to add a bit of mythic resonance to the ta...
Do you care if what we do together is called “marketing” or “storytelling” or something else? I really do. I keep coming back tostories.Words, pictures and inspirational heroes. Curiosity. Inspiration. And our connections to each other. All feeding and nourishing us just like a good mea...
analyse and visualise data to tell data-driven stories. We combine traditional reporting skills with advanced analysis of satellite images, social media and other open source information. Through multimedia storytelling we aim to better explain the world while also showing how our journalism is done....
Remember the storytelling approach that worked so well with your Common App Personal Essay? It can work just as well with the Why [Name of College]? essay. You have a story to tell about why you picked that college and what you can add to its community. Let them hear you!
Our instinctive appreciation of stories and storytelling was probably established very early in our evolutionary history. In the 1990s, Daniel Povinelli and John Cant published a paper titled “Arboreal Clambering and the Evolution of Self-Conception.” Between five million and eleven million years ...