Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story -- and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something "storyworthy" to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something "storyworthy" to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Below excerpt by Ridhika.
Book Review done by Shilpa.
Reviewed book "Storyworthy" by Matthew Dicks.
Written by an award winning storyteller, this book is broken down into three parts-Finding Your Story, Crafting Your Story, and Telling Your Story. Shilpa described that the book provides simple, yet powerful, techniques for writing and telling better stories.
She mentioned that this book describes storytelling as an Art and the other book "A-Z COLL OF BEHAVIOUR TALES: From Angry Ant to Zestless Zebra (Storytelling)" that she had read in the past describes storytelling as a science. She also mentioned the book "Therapeutic Storytelling" which reminds us of why our grandmothers used storytelling as a therapy for us.
Shilpa went on to narrate how to identify stories. It is something that reflects a transformation, a change over time. A story cannot be just a series of events-that is an anecdote. The author has suggested how one needs to identify the best, worst and impactful moments to craft a story. The author has also advised everyone to do a homework every evening. Every evening one should reflect and ask themselves their story for the day. This journaling will make one always ready with a bunch of engaging stories.
Stories are meant to be crisp, captivating and it is about those tiny moments. Stories are not about how amazing people did amazing things. Rather they are about amazing moments. Shilpa shared a few tips of engaging the audience through your stories like setting a captivating beginning, not starting a story by setting expectations and ending your stories on heart and not on laugh.
Alongside the review, there was active discussion on the art of storytelling. Shilpa and Chandrasekhar sir described what has worked for them and what hasn't. Besides storytelling, we also discussed the role of body language and clothes while presenting. We spoke about first impressions and non verbal language. Manish brought up the angle of storytelling to an external vs an internal audience. We talked about understanding the target audience and laughed over how the saree salespersons are master storytellers.
Amidst all this discussion, we concluded that storytelling is about connecting with the audience. It is about bridging the gap between you and another person by creating a space of authenticity and vulnerability.
The Book club met after a gap of 2 weeks and this book was an apt one to break the ice and connect everyone through this topic of storytelling.
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