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How fiction can help us better understand our reality

Christian Wickert · TED

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About

When you work for a corporation, confronted with negotiations and deals, what can fiction teach you? Christian Wickert believes writing fiction can sharpen your perceptions, help you understand others' motivations and ultimately make you better at your job. In this fascinating talk, he explains three ways creative writing improved his business skills and positively impacted his career.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Speaker
Christian Wickert
Year
2017
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Business and management, Literature and writing
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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