is there life in the telling of your story?
Transcript of this video:
Sometimes when I’m about to make one
of these little videos, I, I hesitate
and wonder if the little story I’m gonna tell
you is going to be good enough.
I worry sometimes
that I’m just drifting into a state of anecdotage.
It’s a term I use to describe the experience of listening
to someone telling a story where somehow
it’s lacking engagement.
And I think it’s
because they’re telling it without actually having much
sense of actually relating it to me,
to an actual human being
or to the other people in the room around them.
And I also have a sense,
sometimes they’re not very alive
to themselves in the telling of it.
You just get that experience of sitting there thinking, oh,
I dunno how long this story’s going to last,
but it’s clear this person just going to insist on getting
to the end of it to make some predetermined point.
I think that another thing about natural
alive storytelling is that we can tell a story,
not necessarily knowing exactly what the point
of it is going to be.
We might even leave the moral open to, to a conversation.
And I think what I hope makes these little films alive is
that I deliberately set out to do these, these kinds
of walks with an idea of what I want to talk about,
but without any kind of script so that you get a sense
of hope that I’m actually alive
to myself in the telling of the story.
That I’m thinking about it,
experiencing my thoughts as I go along.
And those are some thoughts on
avoiding getting into a state of anecdotage.
And I’m just sticking this little trailer on the end here
to say that if this interests you,
you might be interested in the practice
group on storytelling
that I’m gonna be running
with Shawn Callahan later this year.
Details in the link at the end of the video
or in the comments if you’re seeing this on LinkedIn
or Facebook.
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