13:20:39 From Matthew David to Everyone: I know nothing! :) 13:25:15 From Sujata Emani to Everyone: Reacted to "I know nothing! :)" with ๐Ÿ˜‚ 13:26:38 From Holly Wiggins to Everyone: excellent 13:27:49 From Matthew David to Everyone: We sent out the .pdf of Narrative Gym for Science. If you'd like a paperback copy, you can order one here: https://www.amazon.com/Narrative-Science-Graduate-Students-Postdocs/dp/B0BLQN2ML5/ 13:30:22 From Matthew David to Everyone: You can find links to the podcast in the social media section of your class's Resource Page: http://abtframework.com/abt-framework-student-resource-page-round-31-usda/#social 13:32:40 From Matthew David to Everyone: I'll be updating the Resource Page after every class with links to references and optional exercises: http://abtframework.com/abt-framework-student-resource-page-round-31-usda/ 13:33:35 From Matthew David to Everyone: We're wanting to set the stakes of what happened earlier. 13:35:50 From Rick Nelson to Everyone: Therefore youโ€™re going to clean up the mess. 13:35:57 From Matthew David to Everyone: Constructing your ABT: 1st) Problem. 2nd) Setup context 3) Consequence 13:37:24 From Mike Strauss to Everyone: The guest speakers are REALLY important in understanding how universal this is! You'll find you understand them not because you know their fields but because they are talking about narrative structure. 13:40:37 From Matthew David to Everyone: You can sign up to host your Working Circle by picking a half hour time slot here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RwHAMYZGd6HQp9mb3dBZ-TkmanHT2rH9_AAy-V3uXqg/edit#gid=0 13:41:37 From Matthew David to Everyone: I'll be going over Working Circles more later. For now, you can read more about them on the Resource Page: http://abtframework.com/abt-framework-student-resource-page-round-31-usda/#Working_Circles 13:43:41 From Matthew David to Everyone: Here's Uri Hasson's paper on Neurocinematics that was referenced in that video: https://www.cns.nyu.edu/~nava/MyPubs/Hasson-etal_NeuroCinematics2008.pdf 13:44:03 From Holly Wiggins to Everyone: ๐Ÿ‘ 13:44:48 From Mike Strauss to Everyone: The blue circle is ALWAYS smaller than you think! 13:45:30 From Matthew David to Everyone: And for TRUE Inner Circle people, you don't need ABT! They might actually be annoyed if you try an ABT. 13:46:39 From Mike Strauss to Everyone: It's essential you listen to all the ABT Builds and, when we ask after the first couple, put in your thoughts...constructing a narrative is a group exercise... 13:46:47 From Matthew David to Everyone: The ABT 3 Step model - aka the ABT "Blue Card:" http://storycirclestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ABT_3_steps.pdf 13:47:34 From Ashley to Everyone: <--- Guilty =) 13:47:43 From Sujata Emani to Everyone: Reacted to "<--- Guilty =)" with ๐Ÿ˜‚ 13:47:59 From Matthew David to Everyone: To clarify, during the Lecture portion, we encourage you to take all the notes you want to. But during the ABT Build section, we'd prefer you just listen and participate in chat giving feedback. 13:48:20 From Mike Strauss to Everyone: You'll hear things being said several times so you won't need to take notes...instead listen and see if you can see what is needed even before Randy says it. 13:49:22 From Matthew David to Everyone: I've email this out as well - here's a guide you can use to writing your first ABT: http://abtframework.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ABT-How-To.pdf 13:49:55 From Matthew David to Everyone: You can email your ABT directly to me: mattmdavid@gmail.com 13:50:48 From Matthew David to Everyone: Please don't spend too long writing your ABT - first drafts preferred! We feel guilty if we tear apart an ABT in class that you slaved over. 13:51:21 From Mike Strauss to Everyone: building a workforce 13:51:34 From Matthew David to Everyone: Here's a good place to start thinking about Ultimate and Proximate Goals. An Ultimate Goal is the big picture thing you want to accomplish. 13:51:55 From Rick Nelson to Everyone: Remember story = journey. That idea really helped me. 13:51:58 From Matthew David to Everyone: A Proximate Goal is the specific action you undertake to achieve the Ultimate Goal. 13:52:48 From Matthew David to Everyone: Ultimate goal: Become more innovative Proximate goal: Develop a collective brain. 13:53:31 From Matthew David to Everyone: Plug your ears! Y'all are cheating by listening to this part! 13:53:53 From Matthew David to Everyone: Kidding - please listen! 13:55:02 From Mike Strauss to Everyone: So what does the world look like if you achieve a "collective brain"? that's the "heaven" 13:56:09 From Matthew David to Everyone: We're trying to create a huge narrative contrast between the Heaven of the AND and the Hell of the BUT to help wake up the audience and activate the brain (per the Neurocinematics paper form earlier). 13:56:58 From Matthew David to Everyone: For the Heaven, think forward to the future. How good can things look if everything go your way, if all works according to plan. Who would benefit? How would they benefit? 13:57:47 From Rick Nelson to Everyone: You can see the pieces are there in the original. Improving it often means rearranging. And you can also see how important it is to does these with a group. You canโ€™t do it alone. 13:58:24 From Matthew David to Everyone: Yup Rich - we're using some of Holly's "collective brain" power right now. 13:58:47 From Matthew David to Everyone: *Rick 13:58:53 From Mike Strauss to Everyone: Once you show the heaven and state what's keeping it away, then I'm sold and want to listen to all the details of what you want to do... 13:59:31 From Sujata Emani-DC to Everyone: nice one, Holly! 14:00:05 From Matthew David to Everyone: Just knock your ABT out fast - first drafts preferred! 14:00:11 From Mike Strauss to Everyone: After your ABT Build Matt will post the chat as well. 14:00:21 From Sujata Emani-DC to Everyone: this is great! thank you! see y'all