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It’s better to think of an employer as a customer for your business of developing software. Sure, you might only have a single customer, and all of your revenue may be coming from that single customer, but viewing the relationship this way moves you from a position of powerlessness and dependency to one of autonomy and self-direction.
If you’re not sure about the level of stakes in your story, simply ask yourself:
• Would the audience want to hear my next sentence?
• If I stopped speaking right now, would anyone care?
• Am I more compelling than video games and pizza and sex at this moment?
If the answer to any of these questions is no, you need to raise the stakes.
Storyworthy
Matthew Dicks
Story, then, is both tribal propaganda and the cure for tribal propaganda. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch advises his daughter Scout that she’ll ‘get along a lot better with all kinds of folks’ if she learns a simple trick: ‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’ This is precisely what story enables us to do. In this way, it creates empathy. There can hardly be a better medicine than that for the groupish hatred that comes so naturally and seductively to all humans.
The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr
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