How to Be Better at Storytelling

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This was the final episode of our Meaning and Purpose season on Veritas. We're going to have links in the podcast description to both everything sad is untrue, and the many assassinations of Samir,. I got it off in one one breath. Long titles are my favorite. Yeah. So thinking about storytelling, thinking about imagination from our conversation today. And here at Veritas, we think imagining hoping for a world where everything Sad is untrue is such a critical part of the life of the university. For listeners who want to be better at storytelling, want to cultivate this type of imagination, what sort of resources or tips or practices would you like to share with them? Well, I think

Do the stories we tell about ourselves have the power to change us? Our guest today says they can.

To wrap up our season on meaning and purpose, we talk with author Daniel Nayeri. In his award-winning young adult novel, Everything Sad is Untrue, Daniel writes from the perspective of his twelve-year-old self, sharing the story of how he, his sister, and his mother immigrated from Iran to Edmond, Oklahoma, after his mother’s conversion from Islam to Christianity. Although this immigration kept his family out of prison (or worse), life in the U.S. came at a cost, too. Through his storytelling, Daniel also processes what he left behind: his beloved stuffed animal ("Mr. Sheep Sheep"), a life of comfort in Iran, and his larger-than-life father.

In this episode, we explore finding meaning through storytelling, the impact of an active imagination, and how the sustaining hope of the Christian story makes even a refugee camp in the Italian countryside a place of opportunity and joy.