This document discusses how storytelling can improve our lives. It references an experimental 1944 study about how people perceive the behavior of shapes in a short animated film. The document also quotes passages from Shakespeare's Henry V and the science fiction novel Speaker for the Dead about the power of understanding others and bringing people together through empathy.

1. BETTER LIVING THROUGH
STORYTELLING
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5. Experimental study of apparent behavior
-Fritz Heider & Marianne Simmel 1944
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6. COMING TO DINNER?> YES
> YES!
> YES.
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9. Once more unto the breach, dear
friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our
English dead.
— Shakespeare, Henry V.
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10. Once more unto the breach, dear
friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our
English dead.
— Shakespeare, Henry V.
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12. This Video Will Make You Angry
-CGP Grey
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14. Transportation into a story increases empathy, prosocial
behavior and perceptual bias towards fearful
expressions.
-Dan Johnson, Personality and Individual Differences (2012)
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19. "WHEN YOU REALLY KNOW SOMEBODY YOU
CAN'T HATE THEM."
"OR MAYBE IT'S JUST THAT YOU CAN'T
REALLY KNOW THEM UNTIL YOU STOP
HATING THEM."
-Olhado and Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, Speaker for the Dead by
Orson Scott Card
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20. BE EXCELLENT
TO EACH OTHER
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