Do you like to listen to stories? why?
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Explanation:
We may as well ask “why do people read newspapers?”, or “why do people watch television?” Somewhere in our DNA there’s a compelling vibrating strand asking so be told a story, because stories help us to survive and experience happiness. For as long as human beings have had language, children have learnt about hunting, travelling, other tribes (friendly and not so friendly) from stories told around the fire. The stories about heroes teach each new generation how to survive floods, droughts, wars, illness and animal attacks. Stories about our ancestors tell us that we come from a long line of survivors. Stories about our parents and grandparents teach us about relationships. (Sometimes, these lessons show us what not to do.)
When we’re presented with a string of facts, we can be rational and see the point. If we’re interested. If we make an effort. Stories just sneak into our consciousness effortlessly. Rather than involving just the brain, stories become whole-body experiences. It is fairly common for people to feel cold when the story is about someone struggling through a blizzard or to catch a fragrance of roses when the story is about a young woman walking through a beautiful garden at dusk.
We love stories because the language used to tell them is usually simple and easy to understand. A good storyteller seeks not so much to impress as to involve; to show up similarities rather than differences; to charm and inspire rather than to command and create distance.
Watch an audience and you can really see the difference between storytelling and a typical bulleted powerpoint presentation. Who has the glazed eyes, slightly distracted, look? Who is fully present and attentive? Only a good story well told gets people emotionally involved and living the experience together with the teller.
Most of all, people love listening to stories, because they love repeating stories they consider to be interesting, compelling, important or funny. Telling a story is a great creative outlet and many of the straightest of people will show that there’s an actor hiding in the suit. There isn’t a person alive who doesn’t enjoy having someone say ‘…and then? What happened then?’ or to laugh or tut in the right place. And the most wonderful thing about a storiy is that it is much easier to remember than a list of rules. If you know the gist of a joke, (which is a story), it can be told in many different ways, in different languages, using different words, and the punchline will work every time.
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coz by stories... we always learn something and specially wr always learn moral