STORYTELLING SECRETS | WRITING TIPS | PSYCHOLOGY
Right and Left Brain Connections
How to integrate experiential emotions when telling stories
Storytelling is both an art and a science where strategy in speaking and writing connects words and emotions to integrate the right and left brain.
Blow your own mind as a storyteller
Some people can tell stories with ease. Others struggle to make sense of their experiences and seem to struggle restating what they thought and how they felt. Underneath the words formed in the logical left brain, they tend to have difficulty replaying what happened — in their right emotional, experiential brain — in a way that others listen. Julian Shapiro researched how to speak and write so that hearers and readers connect. Pay attention to mirror neurons in the brain.
Blowing your own mind entails being excited at moments of excitement, being shocked at moments of shock, and being wowed at moments of wonder. Listeners feed off this like sugar. This, it turns out, is far more important than vocal rhythm or any other delivery trick. Because, when you blow your own mind, something mesmerizing happens: you relive the story and its impact on you in real-time. People then see that reflected on your face and…
