About This Book

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• Stories are, in effect, the product of our interpretation and construction of reality – in line with our understanding of it. That is, in a story that we create, we impose our interpretation on events, and thus actually produce another reality. Think for a moment. The facts and events at the core of any story that we tell to or about ourselves make...
• The stories we tell ourselves and those around us are therefore, in effect, a reality we have constructed and created. A sort of virtual reality, if you wish. If the facts, the events, the ten percent – what we will call here the factual grid, the skeleton of our story – have actually happened, and the remaining ninety percent, the stuff that links...
• in most cases, it is the wrapping that ultimately imbues a story with meaning. The wrapping is what wields the power to convey messages, further agendas, touch the hearts of the audience and keep them in thrall, to promote various aims and objectives, to influence individuals and propel them to action, to shape reality, and even to build an entire ...
• If the narrative glue is missing, there is no story as such – only an agglomeration of data and a sequence of dry facts.
• It is important to understand that when we tell a story, we do not recount everything that has happened to us, second by second: rather, at every juncture we decide which facts to include; we select what is important and what is trivial to the story; we weigh what is more revealing when left out, what will advance our storyline and what will hamper...