QA with a Story Guru Jon Hansen A Storied Career Interview
QA with a Story Guru Jon Hansen A Storied Career Interview
A Storied Career: What future trends or directions do you foresee for story/storytelling/narrative? What’s next for the discipline? What future aspirations do you personally have for your own story work? What would you like to do in the story world you haven’t yet done?
Jon Hansen: As the world becomes more complex and disparate through globalization and social networking (in the latter, a great deal of my ongoing research and development resources have involved the evolution of the Web 4.0 platform), the importance of storytelling will play a critical role in establishing points of commonality that will lead to a greater mutual or “collective” understanding.
This is due in large part to an effective storytellers’s ability to provide a real-world point of reference that is universally recognized for its practical application. And it does not matter whether or not the story is presented within the illustrated or written framework of an Aesop’s fable, or a recounting of an actual event that the storyteller has himself (or herself) experienced, or witnessed first hand. The essential element is that it translates the complex into the everyday thereby widening the funnel of impact.
In the end, effective storytelling is both the filter and translator through which a greater understanding of the complexities that define our world today can reach out to the broadest number of people. It is therefore the lynchpin of effective communication.
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A Storied Career: What future trends or directions do you foresee for story/storytelling/narrative? What’s next for the discipline? What future aspirations do you personally have for your own story work? What would you like to do in the story world you haven’t yet done?
Jon Hansen: As the world becomes more complex and disparate through globalization and social networking (in the latter, a great deal of my ongoing research and development resources have involved the evolution of the Web 4.0 platform), the importance of storytelling will play a critical role in establishing points of commonality that will lead to a greater mutual or “collective” understanding.
This is due in large part to an effective storytellers’s ability to provide a real-world point of reference that is universally recognized for its practical application. And it does not matter whether or not the story is presented within the illustrated or written framework of an Aesop’s fable, or a recounting of an actual event that the storyteller has himself (or herself) experienced, or witnessed first hand. The essential element is that it translates the complex into the everyday thereby widening the funnel of impact.
In the end, effective storytelling is both the filter and translator through which a greater understanding of the complexities that define our world today can reach out to the broadest number of people. It is therefore the lynchpin of effective communication.
Web Resources:
Visit the Author Bio to contact Jon Hansen and obtain the link to access the interview in its entirety.
QA with a Story Guru Jon Hansen A Storied Career Interview - To learn more about this author, visit Jon Hansen's Website.
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