We know that people are getting healthier, but we still read lots
of stories about people dying, bad things happening, and diseases.
Love at first sight can definitely happen, and there have been plenty
of stories about people who fell in love within weeks of meeting and who are still together today.
There have been tons
of stories about people pretending to be someone else, scamming users for money, or worse.
So over decades, I had read all sorts
of stories about people who had gone out into the wilds and explored the unknown, and I thought that if we could just focus on the central experiences of their lives, I could condense all sorts of stories into just chapter length tales and put a bunch of them together, sort of show the whole arc of the discovery of the idea of evolution and really where we stand today, right up to very recent things like Neanderthal DNA and the discovery of some recent transitional fossils.
It also tells lots
of stories about people who are using their jobs at NorthWood so that people can see how everyday disciples are doing it.
Not exact matches
I don't want public attention because I don't want the
story to be
about me... I want it to be
about what the US government is doing... I'm willing to sacrifice all
of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for
people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
«They'd rather have videos
of people telling
stories about their loved one than maybe a priest just sort
of reading just out loud,» he said.
They are Social Currency (e.g., sharing things that make
people look good), Triggers (acknowledging that we talk
about things that are top -
of - mind), Emotion, Public (imitating what we see others do), Practical Value (news
people can use) and
Stories (information passed along under the guise
of idle chitchat).
His status as a mere witness is all the more reason to go in prepared through legal counsel — «even if you're telling a
story about ice cream, because these are some
of the most irresponsible
people on earth,» he said, referring to Congress.
Some
people on Twitter were skeptical
about the sudden retirement, asking «What's the rest
of the
story?»
Watch House
of Cards (speaking
of creeps...) or any old episode
of Behind the Music, and the
story about power you'll see is simple: a nice, ambitious
person, once they can do whatever they want, is quickly transformed into a monster
of appetite, running over anyone necessary to satisfy their newly created desires.
A handful
of people will undoubtedly help keep that
story alive when talking
about the importance
of listening on social media.
Late this year, Imax announced two big movie releases in China: Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, promising a «thrilling
story of heroism, friendship and betrayal, which has never before been depicted on film,» and John Woo's The Crossing, a two - part historical epic
about the establishment
of the
People's Republic
of China.
Instead, make it a
story about the culture
of innovation and the many
people who have sustained it; giving others role models and the license to have something to strive for.
But the use
of this
story is anything but: «One
of the great things
about the catalyst
story is it's a great way to help your
people understand some
of the change you want to surface at your company,» Gittins said.
Fifty - one % said they found news
stories about the deaths
of people at the hands
of police officers, or news
about ambush attacks on police in three states, to be among the year's most important news events.
Build a media presence
of some kind: tell
stories about the
people who are using your services through a blog at least.
Necker damage huge, but BVI #Irma
story is not
about Necker -
about 1000s
of people who've lost homes & livelihoods https://t.co/0USuxvk1dS pic.twitter.com/BaUpvJ2 2pv
He said he would be inviting «leading conservatives» and
people from all across the political spectrum to talk with him and share their points
of view
about the issues raised by the Gizmodo
story.
«This
story is
about the tens
of thousands
of people who have lost their homes and their livelihoods,» he wrote in his blog post, «Recovering from Hurricane Irma.»
A classic example
of this idea is that you'll have an easier time remembering a
story about someone who bakes than a
person with the last name Baker.
Almost 49,000
people are diagnosed with the disease every year, and every one
of them has an equally sad
story to tell
about the diagnosis.
Many
people think, «Wow, it would be awesome if Inc.com ran a
story about our new product -; think
of the exposure!»
Finance Minister Bill Morneau insists he got into politics to help
people, and I have argued that he has a decent
story to tell
about the state
of Canada's economy.
How do you go
about creating characters and
stories that
people relate to and feel so much a part
of?
Today's must - read
story is from Fortune «s Leigh Gallagher and it features an exclusive interview with Maren Kate Donovan, founder and CEO
of virtual assistant startup Zirtual, who talked
about flawed financial projections and what caused her company to lay off 400
people earlier this week before announcing that Zirtual will be acquired by Startups.co.
Lyne: I didn't think
about the prosecution
of Patty Hearst as much as I did
about the fact that there were a whole lot
of people who were talking
about the
story.
Journalist Robert Zimmer with The Atlantic says, «An increasingly familiar and seductive
story has been circulating
about young
people who, drawing inspiration from billionaire entrepreneurs and computer giants, consider dropping out
of college a fast track to business success.»
Effective communication isn't just
about talking; leaders who master the art
of listening authentically will have uncanny, X-Men-like ability to listen intuitively to the other
person's
story, asking questions, and searching conversations for depth, meaning and understanding with their needs in mind.
Invariably, when we tell the
story of how the band survived 10 years in the New York and New Jersey bar scene while struggling to get a record deal,
people want to hear war
stories about shady club owners and how we dealt with the implied «mob scene.»
When I got out
of the military a decade ago, my
story went something like this: Recently discharged veteran wants to meet the world's most interesting
people, write
about them, and find a way to make a living.
«It's the human condition to want to help
people with
stories of our struggles and also to hear
stories about people who've overcome the odds,» she says.
Story is
about working with a group
of people to achieve something bigger than yourself.
He said that for
people who routinely share fake news to their friends, Facebook will somehow warn them
about the
story and then show them more news
stories of other viewpoints.
Assume that when
people think
of you, they will store your name, a mental picture
of you, a few words they associate with you and a few
stories about your behavior.
«Our customers are shopping not so much because
of a desire to buy something as they are engaged in learning
about what's new, meeting interesting
people and hearing their
stories,» he says.
«All
of these
people that I spoke to, who could tell you a not very nice
story about Steve, are also eager to tell you that he made them better.»
When Freitas sat down to talk to young
people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy
stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked
about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.
«That moment
of meeting the
person they've heard
about in all these interviews and hearing from that
person the
story of the business.
«Most
of the
people who tell you
stories about gold are
people trying to sell you gold funds and gold ETFs, and those
stories are not based on reality at all.»
If the screenshot is accurate, then Fusion had less than 700
people on its website reading any
of its
stories, and the top
story —
about the dark side
of amateur pornography — had just 32
people reading.
Her news
story about an increasing number
of seniors declaring bankruptcy in the U.S. was read by more than 40,000
people in one month.
I read somewhere, maybe Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm
about Goldwater's 1964 campaign, that newspapers simply didn't report
about the John Birch society in the 1950s — the owners,
people like the Chandlers, wouldn't allow it — or they buried the
stories in the middle
of the paper.
I have 800 +
people who spend their entire days» lives thinking
about how to actually market and
story tell, where our eyeballs and ears actually are, because they're not in the places where a lot
of companies and entrepreneurs and businesses think.
«Lots
of stories about apps misusing Apple data, never seen Apple notify
people,» Zuckerberg's notes say.
Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald, who has written many critical
stories about President - elect Donald Trump since last month's election, is claiming that
people on Twitter have given him seizures by sending him tweets containing GIFs
of strobe lights.
He says he wanted
people to read it for pleasure and that Flash Boys is a positive
story about people acting in the better interests
of others.
James goes into detail
about his book, the amazing
stories from his personal interviews with ordinary
people with extraordinary achievements, and some ways
of acquiring knowledge and applying it to your life and start winning yourself.
This
story is a first -
person account
of a partner on the Youth Leadership Council, which you can read more
about here.
There are many pleasures in this
story about investment banks pitching activism preparedness so I guess we might as well start with the cheapest
of them, 1 which is that
people who work at investment banks sometimes use words funny: