Re:Crush Your Interviews with the Power of Storytelling
by BurningFrog on Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:54AM
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Memorization experts use this too.
To memorize a Rubik's cube configuration, for example, they convert it to a story, because that's what our brains are best at storing!
Re:Crush Your Interviews with the Power of Storytelling
by bambax on Thursday December 07, 2023 @05:07AM
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Yes, very important point as well! If there's no story around the facts, we can either ignore the facts, or build a story to fit them in. Stories are where we store facts.
Re:Crush Your Interviews with the Power of Storytelling
by passion__desire on Thursday December 07, 2023 @08:53AM
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It is very difficult for humans to remember just a set of facts and reason over them. So stories are how we spread the facts out thin and link them. This is also the technique which athlete memorizers use to remember the order of deck of cards. Story telling or associative memory or stream of consciousness is how we remember stuff.
There's an interesting corollary here to the mundane art of stakeholder management:
One of the first things you learn in this art form is that, if you don't provide a story, people make up their own. Ten people can look at the same stew of random events and come up with 10-20 different stories about what's happening and why.
I'd say it's not just that stories are interesting; it's that we manufacture stories as a way of parsing and compressing the world into something understandable.