Storytelling

Challenge &Selection

Storytelling is a great tool that I always use all the time. When I’m in the college, many people  desperate and demoralizing with study. They need an inspiration and motivation to continue their  study. I spend a lot of time “opening people up” and finding way to inspire them to improve their  skill. When I have a college task with 4 people, we share stories about our problem. Often they’re  lonely and are so happy to share stories of their problem with me, and they find meaning in sharing  these experience as a designer, in a sense. With my problem about my skill, I share a stories of my  desperate about my skill, I use the desperate to motivate my self, and sometimes we use stories to  better understand their interest. I use this information to develop different strategies to find a way  that we can upgrade our skill if we have a motivation.

Application

I have a story about using storytelling. In discussing about our skill with my friends, I was trying to  explain how we get a motivation to always learning about new things. I was also explain how  sometime we can’t get any idea to learns new things. There is my friend who lose his motivation,  and he doesn’t want to continue his study. I told him, and we can always have a new things to  upgrade the skill. And he comes to cheer up again.

Insight & Approach

Well, that was an eye opener. He started to learn new skill, and has a new spirit. Clearly it was time  for me to open up with my story. I told him how scary if we lose our skill. We can’t have our goals,  and we never get to be a designer. That story was work really well. I’m glad that he has a new spirit  to upgrade his skill.

So I told this story to my other friends, and I think it had a big impact on my friends. This course  made me see this as a toll in a new way. I can’t drawing an illustration, but in the end I can do it.

