Storytelling—The Most Powerful Communication Tool in History

翻譯：常 青

Storytelling—The Most Powerful Communication Tool in History

講故事——空前有效的交流工具

翻譯：常 青

你喜歡講故事嗎？平時會有人給你講述不同的故事嗎？有的時候，如果你在與別人溝通時遇到了瓶頸，不妨試著用故事的形式來闡述吧，相信你會收獲意想不到的效果哦！

Human history begins with stories. These stories were so important that they were memorized and passed down for countless generations. Storytelling is an ancient and powerful tool. The ability to1)process, remember and communicate stories is man’s oldest and best trick.

Actually, stories teach better than2)lectures. This process of3)narrative gives a lesson much more powerfully than other ways.

We long for inspirational stories. We read these stories of4)perseverance and success because we want to be inspired, looking for5)motivation to act upon our own dreams.

Good stories6)engage audiences.

For example, I had a job where I had to tell actors to be on time for a performance. I could have just yelled at them, or just repeated the time over and over again. Instead, I told them a true story. The year before, one of the actors was late. We replaced her. She didn’t get a chance to perform.

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pass down 流傳

act upon 對……起作用

yell at 對……吼叫

over and over again

反復(fù)地，再三地

1) process [pr?'ses] v. 加工，處理

2) lecture ['lekt??] n. 講座

3) narrative ['n?r?t?v] n. 故事，敘事

4) perseverance [,p??s?'v??r?ns] n. 堅持不懈

5) motivation [,m??t?'ve???n] n. 動力

6) engage [?n'ge?d?] v. 使加入

Then, none of the actors were late. The narrative made an emotional connection with them.

The next time you need to communicate something, think about how you can make it a story.

Let’s tap into our most powerful communication tool—the ancient gift of narrative.

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tap into 挖掘

故事是人類歷史的起源。這些故事尤為重要，人們將其銘記于心并傳誦了一代又一代。講故事是一個歷史悠久的有力工具，整理、識記和傳誦故事是人類最古老而又最值得稱道的技藝。

事實上，故事傳授要比課堂傳授更好。敘述故事的過程讓人受益匪淺，遠(yuǎn)比其他方法有效。

我們往往期待發(fā)人深省的故事。我們讀著關(guān)于堅持不懈繼而馬到功成的故事，因為我們想從中得到啟發(fā)，從而勇往直前，追逐我們的夢想。

好的故事會讓聽眾參與進(jìn)來。

例如，我在工作中需要告訴演員們在演出時不要遲到。我本可以向遲到的人怒吼，也可以只是再三強調(diào)報到的時間。然而，我只是告訴了他們一個真實的故事。一年前，有名演員遲到了。于是我們將她替換掉，她也失去了上臺表演的機會。

然后，再沒有演員遲到了。這個故事牽動著每位演員的思緒。

下一次，當(dāng)你想給別人傳遞信息時，思考一下該如何以故事的形式傳遞出來吧。

讓我們一起挖掘我們那最強大的交流工具——講故事的古老天賦吧。