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As a storyteller and as someone who is absolutely passionate about stories and storytelling and listening to stories, I truly believe that we are all storytellers. I’ll prove it to you at the end of the day. At the end of a long day, perhaps, you will go home and you will either have somebody, a partner or a friend, a housemate, a friend to call, to recount your day to. We do it all the time, if not every day, we do it several times a week. Even if you don’t have a pair of ears to listen to your stories, you will be repeating these stories in your mind. You will be having conversations with yourself in your head. So whether there’s somebody around or not, we’re constantly telling stories in our minds. We’re playing it out so you can use that to your advantage as someone who wants to tell other people stories. Polish your skills as a storyteller, how? One, Practice every single night, telling your story out loud to either somebody that is going to be your listener and be conscious of how well you grabbed that listener, or tell your story to yourself, to the audience of your walls. But out loud, don’t keep it in your head because the dynamics of telling a story in the head is so different from actually orally saying it out loud. So say it out loud, but don’t just stop there. Two, record your voice, so whether you’re telling your story for somebody or your telling your story for the walls of your room. Make sure to record it. Now I know that a lot of people have a great deal of aversion to listening to themselves. But if you really want to become a great storyteller and if you want to utilize this excellent sublime tool for whatever you’re doing on stage, whether it’s pitching or inspiring, then you need to do away with this aversion and listen to yourself, tell your story and see what feelings you evoke within yourself. What feelings you are evoking within your listener. And what’s best is, of course, to get a small audience and then get their feedback. And finally, three, I’m gonna leave you with a golden nugget here. During the week, carry a pen and a little notepad and all the little interesting things that happened on you on the subway or I don’t know getting to work, getting home, dinners, dinner parties or get togethers with friends or whatever else you’re engaged in, the little nuggets of gold that you find here and there record it, either with your pen or with your phone, with your voice. I do this all the time. And then at the end of the week, take all those little nuggets that you’ve recorded and create a story either out of patching up certain nuggets together or taking one and creating a very short and sweet story out of it. Record it. Listen to it. And keep practicing.
