On: What storytelling does to our brains

[justjimmy]

"Make others come up with your idea. / The next time you struggle with getting people on board with your projects and ideas, simply tell them a story, where the outcome is that doing what you had in mind, is the best thing to do."

Sounds like Inception!

[rheide → justjimmy]

I have a friend who does this to me occasionally. It pisses me off. Just get to the point, man! ;) When you know the magic trick, and when you can see the motivation while the story is being told, it's a lot less impressive.

[pycassa → rheide]

well, story telling has its place and timing. If all he does is telling stories people. It becomes annoying, unless he is really good at it.

[eungyu → justjimmy]

Indeed!

Better quote from the article would be:

storytelling is the only way to plant ideas into other people’s minds.

This is way easier than recursively going into someone's dream, only to meet your ex-wife as base condition.