Storytelling to live audiences is complex—and requires both kinds of thinking: the slow, linear thinking we’ve been trained to do, as well as rapid, non-linear thinking: the output of our “adaptive unconscious.”

Agatha Christie’s character, Miss Marple, models for us the strength of indirect, unconscious thinking—which is key to advanced storytelling.

Further, an understanding of the role of unconscious thinking is key for the storytelling coach, too.