Storytelling : a great way to motivate 

 •   Challenge 

 I am a business student and I enrolled in my first internship experience few months ago , I   was asked to be the leader in a group of other interns to realise a project which aimed    at identifying and contacting prospective customers and convincing them to use the   company ’s products . The goal set by my supervisor was two hundred new customers by the   end of the internship . Many days have elapsed , the deadline was getting close and still more   than a hundred customers to identify . Like I expected them to , my team mates were getting   increasingly discouraged , unmotivated and were thinking of giving up . As bad energy spread   gradually in the group I had to react and overcome this challenge . 

 •   Selection 

 Since our young age we were told stories such as the one about the fox and the grapes that   contained morals , and it always seemed to be an efficient way to engrave those morals in   our minds . Furthermore , storytelling is a tool that makes transferring a message more fluent   and more effective by narrating   special events that carries a moral . Storytelling is also about   inviting people into a dialogue and making them interact and engage . Moreover this tool was   particularly of a good use in this challenge because my team mates did n’t need to hear the   usual   motivational speech that they have already heard many times before , but they needed   to be inspired and start being active in the discussion so we could find a solution , and what   better way to do this than storytelling ? 

 •   Application 

 I am in reunion room , I need to think of a way that I can persuade my team mates by and I   need it quickly , they have to be convinced that we are able to reach our goal , and here   comes the memory of a story that I read in the internet a long time ago and that followed me   to this conference room . So I start narrating this story ,   wich is about a marine biologist that   did an experiment with a shark , the first day the biologist puts in the tank bait fishes and as   expected the shark ate them all . The second day the searcher separates the tank in two   sections by installing fibreglass and puts the bait fishes in the opposite section of where the   shark was . After many attacks , the shark always bounced off the fibreglass until he finally   gave up , got tired and stopped trying . The marine biologist then removed the fibreglass but   the shark did n’t attack simply because it was accustomed to believe in the existence of an   obstacle . The moral here is no matter how many times we fail and believe that we will never    succeed there is no real barrier . In fact the only obstacle is our mind , so we should never   give up because what if success is just one try away ? 

 •   Insight & approach 

 This worked really well , my team mates instantly cached my message and responded to it   exactly the way I expected them to . They needed enthusiasm , inspiration and motivation and   this story captures those efficiently . We actually came up with good ideas that morning , used   them and ended up surpassing the two hundred customers goal by nearly fifty more clients . 

 Since that day I knew that one could always convince , persuade , explain , demonstrate and   get away with a good , context appropriate story . But now , after benefiting from this course I 

 will surely think of and read more stories that could be helpful . Besides the other tools   presented in this course can all be as helpful as storytelling , and I would also add that I am   very excited to use them all and develop a proper mindset for design thinking . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
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### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Storytelling : a great way to motivate 

 •   Challenge 

 I am a business student and I enrolled in my first internship experience few months ago , I   was asked to be the leader in a group of other interns to realise a project which aimed    at identifying and contacting prospective customers and convincing them to use the   company ’s products . The goal set by my supervisor was two hundred new customers by the   end of the internship . Many days have elapsed , the deadline was getting close and still more   than a hundred customers to identify . Like I expected them to , my team mates were getting   increasingly discouraged , unmotivated and were thinking of giving up . As bad energy spread   gradually in the group I had to react and overcome this challenge . 

 •   Selection 

 Since our young age we were told stories such as the one about the fox and the grapes that   contained morals , and it always seemed to be an efficient way to engrave those morals in   our minds . Furthermore , storytelling is a tool that makes transferring a message more fluent   and more effective by narrating   special events that carries a moral . Storytelling is also about   inviting people into a dialogue and making them interact and engage . Moreover this tool was   particularly of a good use in this challenge because my team mates did n’t need to hear the   usual   motivational speech that they have already heard many times before , but they needed   to be inspired and start being active in the discussion so we could find a solution , and what   better way to do this than storytelling ? 

 •   Application 

 I am in reunion room , I need to think of a way that I can persuade my team mates by and I   need it quickly , they have to be convinced that we are able to reach our goal , and here   comes the memory of a story that I read in the internet a long time ago and that followed me   to this conference room . So I start narrating this story ,   wich is about a marine biologist that   did an experiment with a shark , the first day the biologist puts in the tank bait fishes and as   expected the shark ate them all . The second day the searcher separates the tank in two   sections by installing fibreglass and puts the bait fishes in the opposite section of where the   shark was . After many attacks , the shark always bounced off the fibreglass until he finally   gave up , got tired and stopped trying . The marine biologist then removed the fibreglass but   the shark did n’t attack simply because it was accustomed to believe in the existence of an   obstacle . The moral here is no matter how many times we fail and believe that we will never    succeed there is no real barrier . In fact the only obstacle is our mind , so we should never   give up because what if success is just one try away ? 

 •   Insight & approach 

 This worked really well , my team mates instantly cached my message and responded to it   exactly the way I expected them to . They needed enthusiasm , inspiration and motivation and   this story captures those efficiently . We actually came up with good ideas that morning , used   them and ended up surpassing the two hundred customers goal by nearly fifty more clients . 

 Since that day I knew that one could always convince , persuade , explain , demonstrate and   get away with a good , context appropriate story . But now , after benefiting from this course I 

 will surely think of and read more stories that could be helpful . Besides the other tools   presented in this course can all be as helpful as storytelling , and I would also add that I am   very excited to use them all and develop a proper mindset for design thinking .
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