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Simmons tells us to practice our storytelling to get better. She lays down every possible way that (she thinks) that we can communicate. Facial expressions, body language, general appearance, hand gestures...But it all comes back down to chapter one. We have to gain our audience's trust. We have to give them reason to think we are being truthful and worthy of their ears.
What harsher audience is there than a child? They have no shame. They know if you're bull shitting them. Try, just try and keep a toddler's attention. Try to convey to a teenager that you are worth listening to and learning from.
Aren't children the best audience to practice our storytelling? We've got our work cut out for us on these projects, but who better to challenge us?
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posted by Luke @ 5:50 PM
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Children are also naive and gullible.
What is more difficult: Telling a story to a classroom of kindergartener's or telling a story to a group of Master's Degree students?
I think that when a group of children seem as though they are paying attention, they really are. If they are unhappy, they squirm and send their attention elsewhere.
However, if a group of adults seem to be paying attention, they may not really be doing so, or only doing so as an act of politeness.
Yeah, children are pretty stupid. You can get them to believe in all kinds of ridiculous things.
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I mean, Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? A giant rabbit that gives out manufactured candy? Really, kids?
My heading says Ch3. It should say Ch4.
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