We​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ need to talk about narrative design—the intangible element that changes a pretty game to something that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Vibhas Ratanjee studies leadership and culture at Gallup On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most ...

If humans were fish, our water would be narratives. We never experience reality unmediated. Light and sound filter through our senses and we impose meaning and order, building our familiar perceptual ...

Most people know George Lucas as the writer-director of the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as a producer of many films and series that make up the franchise’s extended universe. In recent years, ...

Show, don’t tell. It’s probably the most overused phrase in the storyteller’s caboodle, but that’s probably because it’s true. There is nothing more tedious than an expository slog in the opening act ...

Recently I've been deep-diving into a model of brain, mind, and behavior—active inference and the free energy principle—developed by a leading neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist Karl ...

“All great literature can be reduced to two stories: a man goes on a journey, and a stranger comes to town.” This axiom, most often attributed to Leo Tolstoy, speaks to the power of the stories we ...

Listen to ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology essay, “The Power of Story” by Dr. Erica Kaye, Director of Research in Quality of Life and Palliative Care at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. The ...

Fortnite​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ is not only recognized as a battle royale giant or a creative hotspot for streamers, but it turns ...