engage, teach, persuade, and change your life through the power of storytelling
Matthew Dicks: Storyworthy (2018)
348 pages
English language
Published May 14, 2018
"A 30-time StorySLAM champion shows readers how to improve their storytelling skills, and how doing so can improve their relationships, careers, and overall well-being"--
You might think that a book on search protocols from a Google expert would be outdated quickly. Nope. Not this one. Combine this with a forum that author Dan Russell has started and you have a lifelong prescription for learning to learjn. Read part or all. Great investment of time. I used it in my university research courses. Glad to share with you.
Whoa. This is a super awesome book on storytelling.
The title sounds like a cheesy self-help book, but it surprised me. I expected it to be like a typical non-fiction book, but it reads like a beautiful novel.
The author tells many powerful stories of his life and explains how we can also learn to tell stories. Not just fantasy stories, but authentic and honest stories of our lives that can connect with people. I never was aware of the storytelling communities or the art of storytelling. I knew standup comedy, screenwriting, and novels are ways of crucial storytelling. But I was thrilled to discover the world of storytellers, The Moth GrandSLAM, through this book.
I will dig deep into the rabbit hole of storytellers and workshops on this topic. Why wouldn't I want to entertain the people I love and respect with some genuine, authentic, and vulnerable stories of …
Whoa. This is a super awesome book on storytelling.
The title sounds like a cheesy self-help book, but it surprised me. I expected it to be like a typical non-fiction book, but it reads like a beautiful novel.
The author tells many powerful stories of his life and explains how we can also learn to tell stories. Not just fantasy stories, but authentic and honest stories of our lives that can connect with people. I never was aware of the storytelling communities or the art of storytelling. I knew standup comedy, screenwriting, and novels are ways of crucial storytelling. But I was thrilled to discover the world of storytellers, The Moth GrandSLAM, through this book.
I will dig deep into the rabbit hole of storytellers and workshops on this topic. Why wouldn't I want to entertain the people I love and respect with some genuine, authentic, and vulnerable stories of my life!
Damn, this is my best book of the year. Period.
I read this book to re-visit my story telling skills and improve narration for projects to come, which are sitting around on my work desk. And it was great again to hear about 5-Seconds moments of transition, of storyworthy moment-collections, of movies in your (and your audiences) head, of how to craft and build story lines with „But“ and „Therefore“ connectors. Do you need to read it? Well, not if you are not planing to tell more of your stories to people at tables, stages and in writing. But if you want to go onto this adventure, I wholeheartedly recommend it.
