Storytellers
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Storytellers Should Avoid Heavy Descriptions to Reduce Listener Cognitive Load
“What storytellers should do is take the nouns or the locations that exist in your brain, and I leverage them on my behalf. I don't want to describe my classroom because that's time and that's cognitive load for you.”
Dicks: Storytellers should never open a story with unattributed dialogue
“Weird things that people do should not be done, like opening a story with unattributed dialogue. You know, so you're standing on stage and you open your story with, Jim, it's time to come in for dinner, my wife said. Like, that's just weird. We don't talk like…”
Dicks: Audiences stop listening when not wondering what comes next
“If your audience isn't wondering what you're about to say, They're no longer listening to you.”
Dicks: Storytellers are positively self-centered by taking time for self-reflection
“Storytellers tend to be Slightly self-centered in a positive way, meaning we afford ourselves time to think about ourselves.”
Singhal: Professional superpowers naturally create corresponding executive blind spots
“Great collaborators sometimes are very reticent to present their own opinions because they're so good at assimilating others or people that are amazing at growth struggle to be innovative. People that are world-class storytellers struggle to get in the details…”