About this lesson
How to relive a story so that the audience can visualize and remember your messages.
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Here's an important tip if you want to be a great storyteller.
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And it's something great storytellers do.
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You ready for it?
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Be lazy.
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That's right.
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I want you to actually be lazy.
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I don't want you writing and re-writing and editing and
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polishing this story 1,000 different ways.
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It's too much work, and
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if you were to try to memorize it, it would probably sound canned and phony.
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Instead, I need you to take the lazy way out.
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And that is simply relive the story.
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Don't try to memorize the story.
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The beauty of a story is you were there ideally.
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You can use stories recounted to you from other people,
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in which case, talk about your conversation with them.
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But if you're talking about a story of a problem that happened for
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you with a real client, real colleague,
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a family member, just see it in your mind's eye.
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It's easy for me to tell the story of that prime minister at the moment
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getting angry with me for telling him his speech was boring cuz I can see it.
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I can see this ornate room.
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I can see all of the guards out.
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I can I see the machine gun.
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It's easy for me, I'm simply reliving an actual experience.
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I'm seeing it.
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I'm walking through it.
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It's probably not that hard for you if someone says, well,
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how did you meet your spouse or your significant other?
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Or what town are you from?
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You're seeing it.
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You've said it a bunch of times before, but you're seeing it.
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Use your eyes.
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It's easier for you, guess who else it's easier for?
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It's easier for your audience.
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That's the beauty of stories.
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Easier for you to say cuz you can see it.
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Easier for your audiences to see it in their mind's eye and easier for
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them to remember it.
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So don't try to get it word for word the same way, don't memorize it.
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You can tell a story a little bit differently every time, and
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it still works as long as you have the central elements.
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First of all, an important message for your audience, a setting, a character,
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some dialogue, some emotion, a problem, a conflict there, and how it was resolved.
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Do that, and you'll be in great shape.
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