tell to win (Peter Guber)

 Tell to win, written by Peter Guber, [2011]

p. vii (7)

     There's a treasure to be discovered and it's inside you.  Build into your DNA is humanity's ten thousand plus years of telling and listening to oral stories.

     This veneration of story is a force so powerful and enduring that it has shaped cultures, religions, whole civilizations.

    (Tell to win, Peter Guber, 2011)

p. 62-63

back stories

     time bombs or buried treasure

   Deepak Chopra

   Back stories emerge out of our memories of past experiences, imagination, and desires.

"You create stories around these thoughts.  Then you live out those stories and you call it life."

   Back stories actually can define a person's future, "because we're conditioned by experience to repeat out stories" 

   Depending on the nature of those stories, this repetition can produce positive or negative results.

p. 63-64

    Finds a way to tell a new story

    This doesn't mean changing the experience on which the story is based.

    It means mentally creating a new context and a new meaning that breaks the pattern and [the] hold of the back story.

    The new story then serves as "a bridge from what is to what could be."

    (Tell to win, Peter Guber, 2011)

    Our back stories are always lurking under the surface poised to spring into action.

    If we actively confront them, then we can convert even the most dangerous time bomb into valuable treasures.

    (Tell to win, Peter Guber, 2011)

p.69

   If the lion does not tell his story, the hunter will

       --an African saying

p. 71-72

   Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to recall it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they can not think new thoughts.

    (Tell to win, Peter Guber, 2011)

p. 79

   own your back story so it doesn't sabotage you when you tell your front story

* the story that runs your story

* be active in your own rescue; confront the stories that others are telling about you.

p. 85

   Great music can encode the whole story of a film and give it emotional unity

    (Tell to win, Peter Guber, 2011)

purpose

   the reason for telling a story

Cracking the Code, Thom Hartmann, 

Chapter 2     cracking the story code     33

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

--Rudyard Kipling

   Trojan Horse

in Virgil's famous line "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" 

(I fear Greeks even those bearing gifts)

which became known as 'beware of Greeks bearing gifts,"

   

   head fake

   hidden message inside a story

p. 41-42

   Chris Anderson

   "Our hunger, our appetite for stories for beginning, middle, and end -- is a bug in our brain."

    (Tell to win, Peter Guber, 2011)

p.45

   Michael Wesch

   "human meaning seeking

    We can't remember anything without giving meaning to it."

    (Tell to win, Peter Guber, 2011)

Tell to win, written by Peter Guber, [2011]

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