Category: How To Speeches
Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
The Power of Story
Susan Conley is a writer, a teacher and a co-founder of The Telling Room, a creative writing lab in Portland that believes in the power of stories to transform students’ […]
Hardwired for Story
A TED talk by Sarah-Jane Murray At the end of the day, a civilization that forgets how to tell its story crumbles and dies. Scientific research corroborates that our brains […]
Success, Failure, and the Drive to Keep Creating
Elizabeth Gilbert was once an “unpublished diner waitress,” devastated by rejection letters. And yet, in the wake of the success of ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ she found herself identifying strongly with […]