A Storytelling Coach More details here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravishankar-iyer/
Welcome to the forty-ninth edition of '3-2-1 by Story Rules'.
A newsletter recommending good examples of storytelling across:
Let's dive in.
Ouch, that hurts. Of course, the price here is time, attention, and effort.
Such a great summary of Shamar's inspiring story.
Again, ouch.
a. 'Make Classics, Not Content' by Lawrence Yeo
Lawrence makes a compelling case for creators to avoid the trap of creating mundane content to a schedule.
(I'm, ahem, assuming that curated-content weekly newsletters are exempt from his purview).
Lawrence says that when it comes to great art, frequency does not matter:
In his view, art comes from inside, while content is externally driven:
His solution: balance the need to be consistent with need to be great:
b. American imagination needs an adrenaline shot. Here’s how I’ll deliver it.
Dan Pink is one of my favourite writers - his books (To Sell is Human, Drive, When) have deeply impacted me.
For his latest project, he has started an interesting initiative - asking folks to submit innovative and even outlandish ideas for improving the world. He would be writing about these ideas in the Washington Post, after due research:
I like the call to action for curiosity instead of certainty and scepticism:
Lisa, a psychologist and neuroscientist, is one of the foremost experts on the topic of how emotions are made and how we can manage them.
In this conversation, Adam and Lisa talk about how to regulate your emotional reactions by being more aware of them and through the powerful technique of recategorisation.
I loved "Get your butterflies flying in formation.” - a line I'll be using in my sessions!
Reframing difficult emotions as electrical activity (or in Munnabhai's evocative words, 'Chemical locha') can take the sting out of them:
I liked the idea of the emotional flu:
That's all from this week's edition.
Ravi
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