Ethics, Worldview & Influence

Tell A Story That Matters

When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was seven years old in Nigeria, every book she read was about white children in England eating apples and playing in snow. So when she wrote her first stories, her characters were white, ate apples, and played in snow, even though she had never seen snow and had never eaten an apple. Years later she gave a talk called The Danger of a Single Story that changed how millions of people think about storytelling. In this lesson you will learn why stories matter more than facts for shaping attention and memory, practise building a story with arc, stakes, and relevance, tell your own short story, and revise it for impact.