Good stories are startling. A sensitive, educated man is mad with lust for an eleven-year-old girl! Or, Yuck! Which is the same reaction with a slightly different sound.
Are you serious? It took us so long, and so many long sentences, to find that out—but it was worth it. Good scientific theories are always startling, too. The narrative excitement of the great scientific theories, far from residing in their reassuring simplicity, lies in their similarly radical exclusions, their shocks: Everything in the whole universe is instantly attracting everything else!
The big earth is dully pulling the apple and the apple is pluckily pulling on the earth. If you raced in your carriage as fast as you could and your friend raced in his carriage alongside yours as fast as he could, there would be absolutely no way for either of you to tell if you were both moving really fast or both just completely standing still!
No way at all. Or consider this story: the Archbishop of Canterbury is actually the offspring of a little fox with pointy ears that lived in a tree! Or simply consider this story: locked inside the nucleus of each little invisible atom is a force so vast it can destroy an entire city!
Now, those are stories worth pitching; the suits stand up when they hear them, and say, My God, we must make that! Or test that in a lab, or tell that to our students, which is the same thing. And the story that everything is, one way or another, give or take a turn or two, really sort of like a story? Our mission here is pretty simple. In order to survive and thrive, we need to pass on the strategies and tactics that are necessary for us to exist through to following generations.
Stories become the vital codes of survival. Her story of intergenerational trauma, migration and coming-of-age as a young gay woman is an extraordinary example of storytelling, highlighting survival. Storytelling is what makes us human. Stories are one of the few things that separate us from animals, they are central to the human experience.
Not all stories are verbal, mind you. Some of the greatest stories are told by allowing our imaginations to simply run wild. By creating a sound to reflect a moment that creates a scene in our mind, his vocal chord manipulation allows us to transcend all expectations and create our own connections to a place and space in time.
A good story engages our curiosity, emotions and imagination, and ultimately lives on to inspire us. Register here. What makes a great film for you? Andrew Flakelar: Like most filmmakers, my feelings about what makes a film great is one that best uses the The researchers then turned their attention specifically to the Agta, focusing on two communities, with a total of roughly 1, people, and conducted a number of experiments to determine the power and purpose of storytelling.
In the first experiment, the investigators asked people across 18 villages in the two communities to vote for the best storytellers in their group. There was no limit on the number of people they could name. The votes in each of the camps were tallied, with higher overall scores taken as an indicator of a camp with more and better storytellers. A different people in the same camps were then asked to play a resource allocation game, in which people were given up to 12 tokens, each of which could be exchanged for about an eighth of a kilo of rice.
They were told they could either keep all of the tokens or give as many as they wished to any or all of up to 12 other residents of the camp the researchers secretly chose.
All of the subjects made their decisions privately, in the presence of only the researchers. At the end of the experiment, all of the rice was distributed to all of the villagers according to the choices the subjects had made.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the subjects kept an average of The more good storytellers in a village, in other words, the more generous people were. In the second experiment, people in the same 18 camps were asked to name a maximum of five people in their own community with whom they would be happy to live.
Remarkably, storytellers were chosen over people who had equally good reputations for hunting, fishing and foraging — which at least suggests that human beings may sometimes prize hearing an especially good story over eating an especially good meal.
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