Topic: Storytelling

Six things affect our ability to learn When we encounter brand new ideas, our brain goes into reptile mode—it is either fascinated by the idea and falls for it hook, line, and sinker. Or it rejects the idea without scrutiny. As with most things, there are six factors affecting ability to understand something. 1. Familiarity, 2. Interest. 3. Timing, 4. Our state, 5. Messenger, and 6.

~ parable, illustration, metaphor ~ a simple story used to illustrate a point or a moral or spiritual lesson. Because no analogy can describe all the details of a complex topic, as a rule they focus only on one or two particular