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Why narrative stays so long in our minds
December 9, 2019My recent reflecting on how Paul Revere became a household name in the United States got me thinking once...
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Why we remember Paul Revere
November 24, 2019As I mentioned last time, American grade school children study in considerable detail the events leading up to their...
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An enlightening illustration of the power of narrative for memory
November 11, 2019Not long ago, I was listening to an interview with the renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Before getting to...
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The enhanced memory effect of learning through story
October 27, 2019In recent posts, we have seen that my business school students were far better at recalling stories and cases...
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Storytelling first, yes, but never to the exclusion of rationality
October 10, 2019This week, a reader comment showed me the need to clarify something I stated in a misleading manner. The...
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Why stories form our native language
September 30, 2019At the end of the last blog entry, I promised to discuss some of the evidence I found that...
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Science vs. story: which approach is the most useful for learning?
September 17, 2019In the past weeks, I have written about my students’ capacity to recall, with high levels of precision and...
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Business students and narrative recall
September 9, 2019The previous post provided some detail about a phenomenon that began to fascinate me more and more, at the...
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Why stories slide into our memories without effort
August 28, 2019We ended last time with the assertion that moving to narrative-based learning provoked significant, and truly positive, changes in...
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How stories make lessons come alive
August 13, 2019As we mentioned toward the end of the previous post, there were a number of reasons why my students...