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Robert Mckee on the Power of Storytelling

The Daily Stoic

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What's the Difference Between a Journey and a Speech?

Aristotle complained about the poetics and said that the least important aspect of theater is spectacle. So this is when you're giving a talk, it's a form of theater. Even if it's no frills and no nonsense, you still have to be taking the reader or the listener or the viewer on some sort of journey. A journey is one of the most California words that evolved into the vocabulary out of 10, 15 years ago as a euphemism for struggle. Life is an uphill battle to try to make meaning and something worth living for day in and day out.

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