Again this morning I got into a conversation with someone about how important story telling is in our daily lives. Your ability to tell a good story, an anecodote, will help you far more than almost any single thing you can do, professionally.
This is not joke telling ability, this is an ability to take almost any subject and figure out how to illustrate your points via a compelling story. If you are jobseeker, it is about your 3-minute elevator pitch, if you are sales rep, it’s about the thing you are selling.
I am no expert in story telling, but this guy is. I posted this before over two years ago, but I thought it so worthwhile I thought I would post it again. We need better story tellers more than ever.
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I am a huge fan of “This American Life”, and I’m not even American! It’s become a bit of a routine to sit down and listen to the download once a week, and to be told a story. Obviously the stories are more grown-up than the stories my mother used to tell us at bedtime, but the enjoyment is pretty much the same.
The closest to “This American Life” I’ve ever heard on UK radio is “Home Truths”, narrated by the late, great John Peel. But I’m not sure that we could ever match the candour of the American story-teller or the sheer range of stories.
Every country has great story tellers but we have had our share from Mark Twain and Will Rogers to the present day Garrison Keillor.
I need to look up John Peel….he is a new one for me.
thanks Clare.
GL, story telling has taken new dimensions in the blog and net world. The kind of pressures on verbal face to face story telling not being operational, blog posts have become a great medium for story telling. Both of us know some great blog posts and the comments that they elicit which are all story telling of one kind. There are people, like me for instance, who prefer to read rather than listen to words, though music is excluded in this preference. I for one, abhor the use of telephones and prefer emails and instant messaging where the story telling reaches some amazing heights.
I enjoyed the video but would still prefer the written word over the spoken though, I accept, I can now afford to, unlike all those fellows out there who are still having to tell stories on a face to face basis.
Incidentally, I had seen an interview of Ira Glass by David Letterman and have been locate it in YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1TcL0wZ-pM&feature=PlayList&p=7BBC25B5041C6DCC&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=10
Story telling at its best with the visual effect quite stunning too!
[...] From What Would Dad Say: How To Tell a Story About Your Career, Your Products, Whatever “Again this morning I got into a conversation with someone about how important story telling is in our daily lives. Your ability to tell a good story, an anecodote, will help you far more than almost any single thing you can do, professionally. This is not joke telling ability, this is an ability to take almost any subject and figure out how to illustrate your points via a compelling story. If you are jobseeker, it is about your 3-minute elevator pitch, if you are sales rep, it’s about the thing you are selling.” [...]
[...] From What Would Dad Say: How To Tell a Story About Your Career, Your Products, Whatever “Again this morning I got into a conversation with someone about how important story telling is in our daily lives. Your ability to tell a good story, an anecodote, will help you far more than almost any single thing you can do, professionally. This is not joke telling ability, this is an ability to take almost any subject and figure out how to illustrate your points via a compelling story. If you are jobseeker, it is about your 3-minute elevator pitch, if you are sales rep, it’s about the thing you are selling.” [...]
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