That's all she wrote

In the Ted talk "The dark side of storytelling", Suzanne Duncan shares how storytelling can turn into a negative thing when it keeps one from personal growth. Duncan talks about how working in a financing firm has brought her to explore how individuals use storytelling to depict events. She found that many people talk about events where they were not successful, in a light where they were not at fault. In events where they were successful, they spoke about it in a light where they were the positive factor. Suzanne Duncan uses pathos to get her point across. She brings up an example of Timothy McVeigh, the American terrorist who perpetrated the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and injured over 680 others. She explains how fiction and fantasy were a big part of his life before, and how he eventually turned his reality into a fiction story. By doing this, he used religion as part of his reasoning for committing the acts. By using this example, the audience can...

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