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Long before Star Wars, Aristotle described how tension makes a great story. He said that a great story establishes what is and then establishes what could be. The gap between those two things is the tension, and that is your story. The storyteller's job is to close that gap and open a new one, over and over until the tale is done.
The Storytelling Edge
Shane Snow, Joe Lazauskas
On the contrary, many companies whether consciously or not—have established cultures that tend to discourage inquiry in the form of someone's asking, for example, Why are we doing this particular thing in this particular way?
A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger
“The formless” isn’t a particularly well-known bit of Buddhist terminology. But there’s a better-known word that means roughly what this teacher meant by the term: emptiness.† Whichever term you use, the upshot is that, in the world out there, which seems so solid and so structured, so full of things with a distinct and tangible identity, there is less than meets the eye. This world of apparent forms is in some sense, as the Samadhiraja Sutra has it, a “mirage, a cloud castle, a dream, an apparition.” Or, as the Heart Sutra famously and pithily puts it, “Form is emptiness.”
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
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