{"id":1051,"date":"2014-01-09T12:32:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2014-01-09T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:32:37","slug":"the-science-of-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/the-science-of-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narrative storytelling works &#8211; and science says so!!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>When we listen to stories,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/18\/opinion\/sunday\/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html?adxnnl=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;adxnnlx=1354716276-vBCJNxgtIuIFGnU+PmkBpA&amp;_r=0\">more of the brain lights up<\/a>, according to \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/anniemurphypaul.com\/books\/brilliant-the-new-science-of-smart\/\" target=\"_blank\">Annie Murphy Paul<\/a>, author of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brilliant: The New Science of Smart.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Stories cause\u00c2\u00a0your neurons to fire the same way they would if you were doing the actual action talked about. For example, if you were listening to someone talk about kicking a ball, the motor part of the brain that would help you kick a ball in real life lights up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.slideshare.net\/2013\/11\/20\/the-science-behind-storytelling-and-why-it-matters\/index.html?sf19668533=1&amp;sf20736634=1\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story and look at the storytelling tips from Pixar<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 30px;display: inline-block;\"><input id=\"1051\" style=\"float: right;max-width: 50px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-advanced-pdf\/asset\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"#TB_inline?height=230&amp;width=400&amp;inlineId=examplePopup1\" title=\"Export pdf to your Email\" class=\"thickbox export-pdf\" type=\"image\" value=\"Export to PDF\" \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narrative storytelling works &#8211; and science says so!! When we listen to stories,\u00c2\u00a0more of the brain lights up, according to \u00c2\u00a0Annie Murphy Paul, author of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brilliant: The New Science of Smart.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Stories cause\u00c2\u00a0your neurons to fire the same way they would if you were doing the actual action talked about. For example, if you were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-multimedia","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}