Thread by @michaelkasdan

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“Storytelling is Life.”

Our power constellation of Imagination, Empathy, Connection; all revolve around it. It is the most human and most essential tool for innovation and for social change.

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#storytelling #fiction #innovation #metaverse

The ability and power to create and believe in mass fictions - money, geographical boundaries, religions - and then use them to organize & in turn to shape & change our reality is what differentiates humans from other animals. Brains 🧠 manifest.

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#storytelling #innovation

Yuval Harari. Neil Gaiman. Kurt Vonnegut. Leslie Marmon Silko. Amanda Gorman.

@harari_yuval @neilhimself @Kurt_Vonnegut @TheAmandaGorman

I think they all believe this about the great power of our stories and fictions.

I sure do. 🤷‍♂️

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“Storytelling is the way that unarticulated memory becomes art, becomes artifact, becomes fact, becomes felt again, becomes free. Empires have been raised & razed on much less."

— Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman

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“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things.”

— Neil Gaiman @neilhimself

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“All the true things I’m about to tell you are shameless lies.”

— Kurt Vonnegut @Kurt_Vonnegut

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“I will tell you something about stories. They aren't just entertainment. They are all we have to fight off illness and death. You don't have anything if you don't have stories.”

— Leslie Marmon Silko

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“Fiction isn’t bad. It is [a] vital [tool]. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function. We can’t play football unless everyone believes in the same made-up rules …” — @harari_yuval

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