Will Storr

The Science of Storytelling

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  • Henriette Norup Ydinghas quoted4 years ago
    perfectly tooled to capture the attention of masses of brains.
  • Henriette Norup Ydinghas quoted4 years ago
    Most turn out to be just variations on the standard five-act plot which is successful not because of some secret cosmic truth, or any universal law of storytelling, but because it’s the neatest way of showing deep character change.
  • Henriette Norup Ydinghas quoted4 years ago
    journey into the science of storytelling reveals the truth of such recipes.
  • Henriette Norup Ydinghas quoted4 years ago
    Often the search has been for the One True Story – the ultimate, perfect plot structure by which every tale can be judged.
  • Henriette Norup Ydinghas quoted4 years ago
    to adventure’ onwards.

    Such plot structures have been hugely successful
  • Henriette Norup Ydinghas quoted4 years ago
    parts that track the phases of a hero’s journey from their initial ‘call to adventure’ onwards.
  • Henriette Norup Ydinghas quoted4 years ago
    challenge any of us faces is that of grabbing and keeping the attention of other people’s brains.
  • Henriette Norup Ydinghas quoted4 years ago
    been interviewing had been telling me about brain and mind. The storytellers and the scientists had started off in completely different places and had ended up discovering the same things.
  • Henriette Norup Ydinghas quoted4 years ago
    theorists were saying about narrative were strikingly similar to what the psychologists and neuroscientists
  • Henriette Norup Ydinghas quoted4 years ago
    The answer I found was that, if we’re psychologically healthy, our brain makes us feel as if we’re the moral heroes at the centre of the unfolding plots of our lives.
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