“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Living Intentionally As The Author of Your Life
“Create a life by design, not a life by default.”
Does Listening to Audiobooks Count as Reading? The Truth.
“Even most of those who really never have time to read a book usually have more than enough time to listen to one.”
The Wonderful Intimacy of Storytelling Through Theatre
“Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.”
Strengths to Video Games as a Storytelling Medium
“A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.”
The Benefits of Tracking Your Media Consumption
“There are two ways to live a life. Either forget everything or, remember nothing.”
How Social Media has Ruined Intentional Storytelling
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon”
Why Writing is the Back-Bone for Storytelling
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”
Oral Storytelling: The Most Human Way to Tell a Story
“My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.”
The Most Nostalgic Storytelling Media (Ranked!)
Six storytelling media will be ranked for nostalgic powers. This includes: Books, Video-Games, Theatre, Movies, Verbal Storytelling (Podcasts & Radio), and Music.