Storytelling On Steroids Book Report

“In this book, I explore why: Where did all this storytelling come from? Why are we suddenly so eager to spread the storytelling gospel? And who blazed the trail for an Age of Storytelling in mainstream communication?”(5). This is an excerpt quote from Storytelling on Steroids by John Weich which I thought is the core of what this book explores and intends to do. Through this review I plan to include anything that caught my attention. Most of these were things I knew unconsciously but never took the time to further develop these thoughts. First, John addresses that although this may seem like a new ideal , it is not. It is something that has been happening over the centuries. What we are seeking though is to know why it’s so important in this day and age, and how it expanded so much that anybody can write “storyteller” on a profile. He explains that this is because storytelling is something that is instilled within us ,
I would recommend this book to anybody because it was very captivating. When I first picked up the book I was only eager to read more. Oddly, enough I came in with the intention of finding out what the popular brands were using as ways to storytelling and captivating our attention. By just reading that so many people use the title “storyteller” seemed odd and unjustifiable to me. But after finding out that storytelling is something within us that we do by just writing a post on Facebook. The ten stories I believe were well chosen and easily relatable. I believe most people have seen or at least heard of the stories he mentions. I think the way he went about decoding these stories was done in a successful way because he showed the good and the bad which helped make his argument more truthful which is something he ironically states, that we as humans love stories that seem realistic and