This is Part 3 of a series on storytelling.

In the "Arabian Nights" (The Thousand and One Nights) story collection, a young Persian queen named Scheherazade prevents the king's plans to execute her by telling a succession of stories so enthralling that the king doesn't want to miss the endings. In “The Crow and the Pitcher,” one of Aesop’s fables, a thirsty crow can’t reach the water in a tall jug, so it drops pebbles into the jug until the water rises to its beak. In tales of the Trojan War, the Greeks pretend to abandon their two-year siege on Troy but leave a wooden horse full of soldiers behind to pass within Troy's gates and attack as the city sleeps. The world is full of tales—both true and fictional—where doing things in an expected manner just doesn't cut it. What is needed—and what ends up winning the day for those who wield it—is creativity, and these stories are perfect vessels for capturing that creativity.

Creativity and storytelling are like human superpowers when leveraged appropriately. Both can drive innovations or solutions that are "outside the box" of what is expected, and often never even seen before. These superpowers are getting extra attention in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), as AI provides answers and solutions based on what was, whereas only creativity and storytelling can lead us to what might potentially be. But something called........

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