Storytelling

We all like stories. From our earliest formative years to adults, we all enjoy stories, whether those stories are in books, on a TV or movie screen, or told to us. We enjoy- and tell- stories for all kinds of reasons:

• To entertain


• To inform


• To understand


• To teach


• To advertise


• To inspire


• To manipulate


• To correct


• To caution


• To persuade


• To project

and to do a host of other things. The thing about stories is that they either bring us closer to truth or farther away from it.

What kind of story are you telling these days? Does it bring you (and your listener) closer to truth or farther away?