Book · recommended on 2 episodes
The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr ISBN 9781419743030
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Will Storr ISBN 9781419743030
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This book by Will Storr has come up 2 times on Diary of a CEO. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Michael Acton Smith, Steven Bartlett. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-01-31 and the most recent from 2022-08-08. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“On that point of storytelling, you mentioned storytelling there in our um in our narrative. Your your book in 2019 was about storytelling.”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Will Storr: Award-winning British author of six books including Selfie, The Science of Storytelling, and The Status Game; former journalist exploring psychology, status, and the self. Author Will Storr explains how status games secretly drive human behavior, health, and longevity, and how rivalry beats competition.
“There's an amazing book by Will Storr called The Science of Storytelling which kind of talks about this in great great detail”— Michael Acton Smith
The guest here is Michael Acton Smith: British entrepreneur, billionaire co-founder of the meditation and sleep app Calm, and earlier founder of Firebox, Mind Candy, Perplex City and Moshi Monsters. Calm founder Michael Acton Smith on serial failures, mental health, and patiently riding the meditation wave to a multi-billion-dollar app.
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