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The Limitless Boundaries Of A Storytelling Mindset
When Dorothy’s house gets whisked into the air in L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard Of Oz (1900) it leaves behind a scorched and lifeless landscape in Kansas. The dull repetition of colourlessness has infected the land and the hearts of those around her.
In the 1939 film version, Dorothy has a different problem. No-one is taking her seriously. No one cares about her fight with the influential Miss Gulch and the threat to her dog, Toto. Aunt Em, Uncle Henry and even the farmhands are too busy to lend her their ears for a couple of minutes.
Sound familiar? A grey, unchanging landscape of days stretched out in front of you.
Or, are you struggling to capture the attention of your fellow humans? Isn’t anyone listening?
Maybe no-one has time to read your Linked In post properly or respond to your brilliant new idea.
Perhaps the two things are connected — we are trapped in a world that seems unchangeable, but at the same time, everyone is too busy to stop and listen to one another?
Perhaps we could benefit from a new storytelling mindset.
L Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum, born in 1856 in New York State, knew a thing or two about changing worlds — he had numerous different existences under his…
