By Ryan Holiday If you have ever been stuck or frustrated, this book might help. Using stories and examples from a wide range of people in history (from Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs to Laura Ingalls Wilder and more), the author helps us see how to use our obstacles as a stepping stone to […]
The Moth
By Catherine Burns, Editor Catching up on magazine reading from last year, I saw an ad for a book I’d never heard of. I was intrigued, and since my iPad was nearby, I reached for it and investigated the book on Amazon. Five minutes later it was on my Kindle and 24 hours later I […]
Telling a Story that Influences Others
There are many reasons you might want to tell a story. You could tell a story to entertain, to inform, or to get a laugh. You could tell a story to a friend, write it in a blog post, or include it in a presentation. While there are many situations when a story can be […]
Six Keys to Crafting Your Story
Starting from the time we have enough of a vocabulary to string together two sentences, we start telling stories — and even before that, we are entranced by them. The poet Mariel Rukeyser wrote “The universe is made of stories, not atoms.” While that isn’t literally true, we all recognize the wisdom in the thought. […]
Five Reasons Stories are a Powerful Communication Tool
We all grow up with stories. Stories of our family, stories from our friends and stories we read. There are stories we hear at school, at work, on television and in the movies. Stories are everywhere! And while you’ve been around stories your whole life, you also likely realize that stories have been around forever. […]