Practice #60 - Storytelling At 6 AM On A Hill

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So I'm standing on top of this hill at six in the morning in a preaching position.

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My posture is speaking towards a large crowd.

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Six in the morning it's dark out and I'm standing on top of a mountain.

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I feel like I feel amazing.

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I feel very powerful.

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And then I hear something and I look over.

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I bet you want to know the rest of the story, right?

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Well, first we got to go back.

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Over the past couple weeks I've been studying storytelling, especially...

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Actually, let's go back because over the summer is when I really started to look into entrepreneurship

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and I actually wanted to look into how to get rich, how to make money and all that stuff,

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how to make a business.

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I had to start...

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I stumbled across a book called Expert Secrets and in that book he basically said that storytelling

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is the key.

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Like that's basically it.

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I didn't know it at the time.

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I kept on reading the book because I was like, oh, good, good, good.

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I didn't notice that storytelling was the key.

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And fast forward I start a podcast because of that book and then I start a YouTube channel,

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TikTok, all that stuff.

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And I was practicing my storytelling.

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I was practicing my ability to record.

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And fast forward even further to two weeks ago when I started to realize that it is all

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about storytelling.

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Literally, the best YouTubers are the best storytellers.

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MrBeast, like the best YouTuber on the planet, well, he's just the best storyteller.

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He tells the best stories.

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He has the best storytelling ability.

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So I'm studying storytelling.

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I'm looking up how to tell stories.

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One of the best books to read on storytelling.

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And I read a book and I'm already starting another book and I realized I got to practice.

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So I'm practicing.

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I start practicing more on the YouTube channel and the podcast and then I realized like, oh,

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I learned in one of the books it's really good to just speak out loud.

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Literally just start talking to yourself and tell yourself a story.

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So I'm like, okay, I can do that.

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And I actually started doing that a little bit before I read that in the book.

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Just kind of like, I thought that was good practice to do that on my walks.

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But now I'm doing a lot more consciously and I'm doing it during my workouts.

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And I work out outside.

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It's like, I started like five in the morning and I go to the park and work out.

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It's like a children's park.

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And then there's also like a big sled hill.

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It's a really tall hill that you can climb up.

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And so in the middle of the workout, once I'm done with my set, I run.

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I run all the way over on top of the hill.

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And then I practice storytelling.

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And I'm just like telling my story and I feel amazing.

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Like I actually feel super powerful.

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I feel super cool.

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And I'm looking down and I can see like the highway off in the distance, all the cars

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zooming by at six in the morning.

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And I can, I see like all the lights and all of the street lights.

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And I'm just looking down at my audience.

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And I say audience because it's just like a bunch of grass.

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I'm looking down at the grass and practicing giving like a sermon or giving a speech.

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And it just felt really cool.

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And I completely forgot about that.

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Or at least I didn't really think much of it at the time.

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It was just me practicing.

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Until I, until this specific point in my daily routine, it's called my daily story work.

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And I originally heard it from a Hamza video.

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He said that in a book that he read called Story Worthy, which is a storytelling book.

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I have not read it.

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He said, one of the actual steps in that book is to basically sit down at the end of the

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day, every day, and try and think of a story that happened that day.

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And so I was like, oh, that's a good idea.

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And I started doing that.

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And yesterday I was like, I was trying to think like, what's a good story?

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And usually I just go through my daily routine because my days are all the same.

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I basically do the same thing at the same time every single day.

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So it's pretty easy, but also not so easy to find a story.

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My method is I basically just go through the entire day and recall everything in the order

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of events because I memorized my routine.

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So I'm like, oh, what did I do while I was lifting weights?

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What did I do while I was on a walk?

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Was there anything that happened?

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And on yesterday I wrote down, oh, I remember that I kind of gave a nice, I told a nice

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story to nobody at six in the morning.

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That's a cool story to tell.

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And it never would have happened if I didn't start being conscious about the stories that

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I told.

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It's something that I'm very grateful because honestly storytelling and getting into storytelling

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has begun to change my life.

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It's already completely revolutionized every aspect of my life.

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And I'm really grateful that I started doing it and really started taking it seriously.

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And I'm only on day 13 of doing that daily story practice.

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So tonight I'm pretty sure is the 14th day, so two weeks in of doing that daily story

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practice.