Wisdom: Why was Soloman recognized as the wisest man in the world?

While looking for articles on Soloman, I found a post here to an article on storytelling that is extremely applicable to today as it definitely applies to Disney. Here are some highlights from the article:

• Alan Kay, now vice president at Walt Disney, has said:
  • Solomon was recognized as the wisest man in the world because he knew more stories (proverbs) than anyone else.
  • Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
• Stories are evocative systems of patterns. They provide a map charting the way to the future. They include travel hints in the form of viewpoints and links to archetypal story structures and themes that inspire and motivate people.
• “Stories are marvelous means of summarizing experiences, of capturing an event and the surrounding context that seems essential. Stories are important cognitive events, for they encapsulate, into one compact package, information, knowledge, context, and emotion.”
  Stories represent a basic and powerful universal form through which people make sense of the world and their experiences.
• Great stories provide us with a road map or treasure map, which outlines all of the actions and tasks we have to accomplish in order to complete the journey successfully.
• “Narrative is a complex, powerful, and mysterious tool, certainly one of the oldest technologies on the planet. Deep in the psyche, the world itself is a tale. Every story partakes of this mystery, every telling renews some recognition of this fundamental delight. At a practical level, stories provide us with given ways to organize, test, and simulate in the mind universal patterns of thought and behavior.”
• Stories are much more compelling than information. Stories differ from information in that they have a start and a finish; they talk about events, not conditions; they imply a deep relationship among the events; stories are about particular humans; and stories are told in a human voice.  As markets once again become conversations, marketers need to excel at telling compelling stories.

Photographs tell stories too, don’t they? Have a wonder filled weekend.