PeterB reviewed Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins by Annette Simmons
Review of 'Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This book is all about story telling to convince and explain concepts to people.
Simmons explains that story telling should be seen as an addition to "cool hard facts". Because humans are empathetic beings, we are inherently wired to understand concepts better and quicker through stories. Although stories are, by definition, subjective it's the quickest way to explain what needs to be explained.
The book goes into different kinds of stories and different story lines and the combination of those. There are no formulas given, which is probably a good thing.
After reading the book, I'm now more aware of how stories work and I'm sure I'll try to incorporate them in the future (which is pretty hard as an engineer ;-) )
This book is all about story telling to convince and explain concepts to people.
Simmons explains that story telling should be seen as an addition to "cool hard facts". Because humans are empathetic beings, we are inherently wired to understand concepts better and quicker through stories. Although stories are, by definition, subjective it's the quickest way to explain what needs to be explained.
The book goes into different kinds of stories and different story lines and the combination of those. There are no formulas given, which is probably a good thing.
After reading the book, I'm now more aware of how stories work and I'm sure I'll try to incorporate them in the future (which is pretty hard as an engineer ;-) )