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The power of edutainment to change behaviour

The greatest stories are all about change. What does a story have to do to change someone’s behaviour? Well, we should firstly admit that it is not just the story that changes people, but whole communities talking about stories. Behind all behaviour patterns and thought patterns lies the “weight of past experience”. That experience determines […]

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Narrative collapse: when stories disintegrate

All  stories have a shelf life, a time beyond which they start to fall apart and forgotten. This is a natural and normal process and applies to all entities that make use of stories. Empires, kingdoms and reputations are all ultimately narrative based; all political and economic power is contained in story. Since all power is story […]

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The Exit Narrative

The Exit Narrative The Exit Narrative is a particular kind of story that is seldom shared, but everyone has one or more of them. The Exit Narrative, when it pops up into your mind is evidence that change is being contemplated and things are about to transform. Change and uncertainty gives rise to angst and […]

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Why are stories so important in our lives?

We start our lives watching and listening to sounds made by the world around us. As William James once wrote “The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion”. At some stage, many of these sounds become words and acquire meaning and emotion. […]

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The Five Keys to success

The first key: Knowing what you want Successful people know what they want. They know who they want to be and where they want to go. In other words, they have a very clear picture of what success means to them.  Do you know what you want? This is the first step to power and […]

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How I Quit Story and Started Telling

Written & Narrated by Britta R. Kollberg – Germany Kokopelli carries his story like a flute ahead, making himself heard before you or anyone can see him. He showed up on a website when I started searching a way out of what I was doing into a new career or a new direction of thinking […]