CR 2.2 Chapter 5: Story

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CR 2.2 Chapter 5: Story

How to incorporate Story into your life and as an educator (my favorite suggestions from the book) p. 119-128.

Create stories of strangers you see. Who are they? What are they doing? Where are they going? What is their relationship?

Record stories with a tape recorder. (This made me think about recording stories from my grandparents and great-grandmother.)

write a mini saga

The Story of Healing

Narrative and stories are an important aspect of medicine that needs to be utilized more. (p. 111).

Dr. Rita Charon noticed everything she did as a doctor revolved around stories: patients explaining their ailments, doctors telling their own stories, illness unfolding as narrative. But narrative was not in med school curriculum. She worked with Columbia University to include classes like this in the curriculum. (p. 112-113).

Pink, D.H. (2006). A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future. New York, NY: Riverhead books.

References

The Story Business

Like design, story is another way for companies to distinguish their products from others.

wine example from author

realtor example from author

"'Storytelling doesn't replace analytical thinking. It supplements it by enabling us to imagine new perspectives and new worlds...abstract analysis is easier to understand when seen through the lens of a well-chosen story'" (Pink, 2006, p. 108).

Persuasion, advertising, counseling, consulting accounts for 25% of U.S. domestic product. (p.107).

"If a businessperson understands that his or her own mind naturally wants to frame experience in a story, the key to moving the audience is not to resist this impulse but to embrace it" (Pink, 2006, p. 106).

Why are stories important for R-thinkers of the future?

Joseph Campbell argued all stories are made from the same equation.

The "Hero's Journey"- Departure, initiation, and journey. (p.105).

"Stories capture the context, capture the emotions...Stories are important cognitive events, for they encapsulate, into one compact package, knowledge, context, and emotion" (Pink, 2006, p. 103).

Facts used to be more important (now they are accessible and an abundance), but now stories are more important because they demonstrate empathy and understanding between humans. (p.102).

"Stories are easier to remember- because in many ways, stories are how we remember... Most of our experience, our knowledge and our thinking is organized as stories" (Pink, 2006, p. 101).

Main Idea of Chapter: "We are our stories. we compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few conpact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves...we must listen to each other's stories and that we are each the authors of our own lives" (Pink, 2006, p.115).