http://www.storyquest.com/resources/uncategorized/what-is-a-business-narrative/ Sales and Learning Strategies for the Enterprise Thu, 13 May 2010 18:32:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.storyquest.com/resources/uncategorized/what-is-a-business-narrative/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Robroy Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:01:51 +0000 http://www.storyquest.us/resources/?p=122#comment-48 Excellent summary and thank you for drawing our attention to Mr. Dickman’s article. Your point about "the fire in the belly" reinforces what Aristotle said in Poetics about the importance of passion. He says that the function of any story is "effecting the proper purgation of the emotions” – and therefore, as you suggest here, unless we storytellers are feeling passion, how can we expect our audiences to be interested and engaged? Excellent summary and thank you for drawing our attention to Mr. Dickman’s article. Your point about “the fire in the belly” reinforces what Aristotle said in Poetics about the importance of passion. He says that the function of any story is “effecting the proper purgation of the emotions” – and therefore, as you suggest here, unless we storytellers are feeling passion, how can we expect our audiences to be interested and engaged?

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