Right Story, Wrong Story

How to Have Fearless Conversations in Hell

De: Tyson Yunkaporta

Narrado por: Tyson Yunkaporta

Continuing the work of the award-winning Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta casts an Indigenous lens on contemporary society, challenging us to face conflict and embrace conversation to find our way onto the right track.

With Right Story, Wrong Story, Apalech Clan member Tyson Yunkaporta, from far north Queensland, tackles the divisions that prevent us from talking to one another. Yunkaporta invites us to confront life’s biggest questions and arms us with the tools we need to really listen, and to open our minds to change based upon our connections with others. He makes this point through discussions with a diverse range of people across social and political divides including:

• liberal economists
• memorization experts
• Frisian ecologists
• and Elders who are wood carvers, mathematicians, and storytellers.

Building upon the Indigenous tradition of “yarning” to weave our individual narratives into the great narrative that includes us all across any and all differences, Yunkaporta argues that story is at the heart of everything. But what is right or wrong story?

Depressing and Hopeful

I greatly appreciate this book for keeping it real and being honest about how fucked we are and yet providing so many starting places to think deeper and transform culture.

A rekindling

This book gifted my mind and heart with sparks that feel like a fire flowers, burning subtle new patterns into my inner horizons. Thank you, TY

Required reading

Don't hesitate, just get the book. Lovely narration by the author. I really need not justify it

Listen to right stories and wrong stories

So that you may begin to recognize them in your life, your histories, your mental frameworks, your family, your work; but mostly listen for the camaraderie of a good friend in hell with you.

Makes you think

I like everything Tyson does, so I'm not a fair reviewer. If you jive with him, then read it. If you're looking to be challenged, read it, but don't expect anything.