John Seely Brown
In the knowledge economy, the real formula for success calls on the need to learn continuously. And to learn continuously, we must learn to see, and do, things differently.
We learn through conceptual frameworks, and we can continue to expand our knowledge incrementally within these existing frameworks.
But if we are to create new frameworks and see new opportunities, our evolving world calls on us to … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Storytelling: Passport to Success in the 21st Century | Subjects: Knowledge, Learning
Jerome Bruner
A good story and a well-formed argument are different natural kinds. Both can be used as means for convincing another. Yet what they convince of is fundamentally different: arguments convince one of their truth, stories of their lifelikeness. The one verifies by eventual appeal to procedures for establishing formal and empirical proof. The other establishes not truth but verisimilitude.
Content: Quotation | Source: Storytelling: Passport to Success in the 21st Century | Subjects: Communication, Persuasion