Her video course, Wired for Story: How to Become a Story Genius can be found at, and Writing: The Craft of Story at. Lisa Cron is the author of Wired for Story, Story Genius, and most recently, Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life. To show your support you can write a review on iTunes, make a direct donation, or become a patron on Patreon. During this 2.5-hour interview with Lisa Cron, we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: why story the definition of story why our biology shows we are wired for story story as a virtual reality simulator consciousness and story the boomerang effect of scientific evidence the only way of walking into someone’s shoes language, emotion, and the patriarchy the cure and poison of story if or how social media is hacking story the story of AI, democracy, and humanity ReWriting the Human Story.Īs always you can listen to or download the audio file above or scroll down and watch the video interview in full. Lisa is the author of Story or Die and Wired for Story which is also the title of her fantastic TEDx talk you can see under her bio below. Today is the first interview of this series and my guest is Lisa Cron.

And so I thought it could be useful to me and interesting to you if I were to have a conversation with a few story experts and ask them questions such as why story, what is story and, perhaps most importantly, how does it relate to technology, AI, being human and our future. Struggling with this book is why it’s been a number of months since my last podcast interview.

The provisional title is ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future. Some of you may know that I’ve been working on a new book. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

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