Writers' Series: What Makes a Story?
Hello everyone! I am Sean, a man pursuing a Master of International Business with a long-standing fascination with stories. While I love stories told however they can be told, anime has been my medium of choice for a long time. As time went on, I increasingly realized that anime was not made in a vacuum, and the more I became aware of the emotions and inspirations behind the classics, the more fascinated I became. “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.” In the lunchroom of one of Steve Jobs' "failures" of a company, NeXT, he struck up a conversation with a coworker by speaking these exact words. It is a quote I heard as a young child that grew increasingly true with time. We all want to do what we want to do; we spend our time and mental resources relative to how much we value the outcome we feel we will obtain by acting. Whether ...