What Pixar, Jesus, and a Good Talk Have in Common


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What do you remember from the last sacrament meeting talk you listened to? Was it the gospel points the speaker was explaining? The scriptures the person used? Or was it the story they told? As humans, we love stories. Our ancestors sat around the fire and listened to stories. We still read the stories of the ancient Greeks and Romans, passed down orally and eventually written down. We write down and record the stories of our ancestors and our own stories for our descendants. As children, our parents read us stories—and if you are like me, you never grew out of loving stories. Why do we remember stories? So why do we love stories? Matt Luhn recently spoke at a BYU forum and discussed stories. Luhn is a Pixar animator who worked on stories like Toy Story, Ratatouille, and Finding Nemo. He said that “when you use a story, you make things more memorable, you make things more impactful and you make things more personal.” When someone starts a story, they have...

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