The art of storytelling, according to the founders of StoryCorps and Humans of New York

Originally posted on ideas.ted.com:

Dave Isay and Brandon Stanton. Photo courtesy StoryCorps.

Between them, Dave Isay, TED Prize winner and founder of StoryCorps, and Brandon Stanton, founder of Humans of New York, have collected more than 75,000 stories from regular people around the world. Isaycollects his stories as audio files, while Stantontakes a photo and theninterviews his subject—but they’ve both developed fascinating techniques for helping people to open up. They sat down recentl...