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Story
Why it’s important to tell stories
You may have heard that including stories in your presentation is A Good Thing. But why?
Our mind is built for stories
An anthropologist did a meta-study on all 6,000 human cultures that have been studied. He found a bunch of things that exist in all human cultures: the concept of right and wrong, showing your status by what you wear on your body, rules about hairstyle (search the Internet for ‘human universals’ and there’s a whole list).
One of those things is gossip and myth. There is no human culture ever studied where people didn’t tell stories. It makes you think that there must be something ...
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