The reason storytelling works so well is that it naturally engages the seven universal facial expressions identified by Dr. Desmond John Morris.
Dr. Morris is the author of many amazing and ground-breaking books, he spent eight years traveling to 60 countries to identify over 3000 unique facial expressions.
Of those 3000, he discovered that there were seven that were universally identifiable across cultures and across the globe.
They are fear, contempt, disgust, anger, sadness, happiness, and surprise.
How it works is the sympathetic mirror neurons in people’s brains react to what they see expressed on other people’s faces and release brain chemicals like dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins.
A well-delivered multi emotional talk will allow the audience to feel what you are saying and good stories make this an easy option for you to deliver.
Without a transition through some universal emotions the speaker is not just mono-tone, their mono-emotional and that’s just boring
Stories tend to have a natural flow of events that provoke the speaker to use different facial expressions and this has a fantastic effect on the speaker and the audience.
So choose stories that take you and the audience on a journey, you will enjoy the variety and they will enjoy the ride.
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