The Four Most Powerful Words in the English Language
...you hear them when your audience seeks you out!
Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, wisely noted that the four most powerful words in English are "Tell me a story.” From our caveman ancestors sitting around a fire and spinning fables to hold their fears at bay, to the telling of ghost stories around modern-day campfires to savor a frisson of that ancient fear, to children clamoring for another bedtime tale, and every beloved book, movie, or television show with a “can't-put-it-down” or “can't-stop-watching” beginning, middle and end, our need for enthralling stories with compelling characters is something deeply embedded in the collective human psyche. It's universal, and it's eternal.
But that's not the whole story of Story, so to speak.
In the next installment, dear readers, I'll give you the second set of the four most powerful words in English that follow "Tell me a story."
Stay tuned.
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