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I’m working on a new book about how to strengthen working relationships, so I’ve been consuming a lot of content around the subject. I can divide the teachers I’ve been learning from into two different camps. First are the mechanics; the people laying out what to do. They’re okay, but I prefer the storytellers; the people who realize that stories, not rules, are what change people. It is both an extraordinary and a learnable thing to know how to tell a good story.
Will Storr is a storyteller, and the award-winning author of 6 critically acclaimed books including Selfie, The Science of Storytelling, and most recently, The Status Game. The Times called him, “One of our best journalists of ideas.” Get book links and resources at https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/
Will reads two pages from ‘Incognito’ by David Eagleman. [reading begins at 11:58]
Hear us discuss:
“You’re not living a story, you’re playing a game.” [5:37] | The danger of writing yourself as the hero: “You’ve got to accept that you might be wrong about things.” [16:47] | The positives of the hero-making brain: “I would argue that a certain amount of comforting delusion is good.” [21:05] | How to manage your status: “Status isn’t about being rich or famous, it’s about feeling like you have value.” [23:59] | The connection between the ‘I’ and the ‘we.’ [29:36]
53. How to Hold a Flower: Muriel Wilkins, author of ‘Own the Room’ [reads] ‘The Untethered Soul’
52. To Read Is to Change: David A. Robertson, author of ‘The Barren Grounds’ and ‘The Great Bear’ [reads] ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’
51. Feeling all the Feelings: Kristoffer “KC” Carter, author of ‘Permission to Glow’, [reads] ‘Autobiography Of A Yogi’
50. How to be a Moral Leader: Sandra Sucher, author of The Power of Trust [reads] ‘The Making of the Atomic Bomb’
49. How to Survive Being Creative: Jessica Abel, author of ‘Out on the Wire’, [reads] ‘How to Write an Autobiographical Novel’
48. How to See the World Anew: Sara Hendren, Author of ‘What Can a Body Do?’ [reads] ‘Life as We Know It’
47. Humility & Trust: Rachel Botsman, author of ‘Who Can You Trust’ and ‘What’s Mine Is Yours’ [reads] ‘Quiet’
46. How to be *Really* Happy: Stephanie Harrison [reads] ‘The Way of the Bodhisattva’
45. The Law of the Rubber Band: Naphtali Bryant [reads] ‘The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth’
44. How to Value Yourself: Stacey Vanek Smith, author of ‘Machiavelli for Women’ [reads] ‘How Proust Can Change Your Life’
43. How to Navigate Failure: Brad Stulberg, author of The Practice of Groundedness [reads] ‘The Sane Society’
42. Cooperation and Competition: Nichola Raihani, author of ‘The Social Instinct’ [reads] ‘On the Origin of Species’
41. How to Reinvent Yourself: Jenny Valentish, author of ‘Everything Harder’ [reads] Giraldi’s ‘The Hero’s Body’
40. How to be a Beginner: Tom Vanderbilt, author of ‘Beginners’ [reads] Epstein’s ‘Range’
39. How to Rethink Ambition: Kieran Setiya, author of ‘Midlife’ [reads] Aristotle’s ‘Nicomachean Ethics’
38. How to Keep Creating: Jessica Hagy, ‘How to be Fearless’ x ‘The Stranger in the Woods’
37. Empathy and Argument: Tamsen Webster, ‘Find Your Red Thread’ x ‘Mistakes Were Made (But not by Me)’
36. How to Practice Understanding: Pamay Bassey, CLO Kraft Heinz x ‘The War of Art’
35. How to Think Straight: Julia Galef, author of ‘The Scout Mindset’ reads from ‘How to Actually Change Your Mind’
34. How to Act Like a Leader: Joel Constable, L&D at Intuit x ‘Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader’
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