CreativeMornings/Columbus / Angus Fletcher

Angus Fletcher is Professor of Story Science at Ohio State's Project Narrative, the world's leading academic institute for the study of story. His research has been called "life-changing" by Brene Brown and "mind-blowing" by Malcolm Gladwell. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles on creativity in journals from Harvard Business Review to the New York Academy of Sciences. His most recent books are Storythinking (Columbia University Press, 2024) and Primal Intelligence (Penguin Random House, 2025). In 2023, he was award the Commendation Medal for "groundbreaking research" with US Army Special Operations.

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