A presentation by Anna Griffin, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, CA Technologies, on The Key to Engaging Employees with Internal Storytelling, from The Big Turn On 2015, a SocialChorus event.
History Will be Kind to Me for I Intend to Rewrite it.
Recent NYT research on the brain and why we think the way we do. The brain – apparently can’t handle randomness and just accept that things happen. Its actually a narrative creating machine that takes whatever it encounters and puts it into a chronology and cause and effect logic. Justin Barrett psychologist at Oxford University writes, “ We automatically and often unconsciously, look for the explanation of why things happen to us and “stuff just happens” is no explanation. Stories put meaning on the chaos, they organize and give context to our sensory experiences which otherwise might seem like a sequence of facts. Facts are meaningless until you create a story around .
A story is a creation of reality – and it it matters more than what actually happened .
By “story” I mean those tales we create and tell ourselves and other and which form they only reality that we will over know in this life. Our stories may not conform to the real world They may or may not inspire use to take hope filled actions to better our lives. They may or may not take us to where we ultimately want to go. But since our destiny follows our stories its imperative we do everything in our power to get it right. And for most of us that means serious re editing. Your life is the most important story you will ever tell.