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Feb. 19, 2024
Practice #61 - Daily Storywork
Do this everyday, it will make your life richer.
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So I'm standing on top of this mountain. It is still dark outside in the morning. No one's up. No one's in sight.
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And I'm just giving a story. Just telling my story. My entire life story, pretty much. And I do this for 20 minutes.
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And I felt amazing. I was just standing there. Just telling my story. Practicing my body language, my posture, walking around. And I just felt amazing.
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I felt like the king of the world. And I'm on top of a hill. Like, I'm literally standing on top of a hill. I can see the highway.
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Off in the distance of all the cars, zooming by. I can see all the street lights. I can see like this park that I'm standing in front of.
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And this like grass area down below. And my audience is just the grass. It's like, I'm just telling my story to the grass.
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And this was in the middle of my workout. My morning workout out in the park. And I completely forgot about that.
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After that happened, I didn't really think much of it because lately I've been doing that a lot. I've been walking around on my walks, telling myself a story, just practicing my storytelling.
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I've been walking around the park down below, practicing my storytelling over the past couple of weeks.
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It was just a normal, ordinary day. Nothing really out of the ordinary.
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And I tell you this because that was a pretty good story, I think. I'm just, I think it was a really cool experience.
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But I completely forgot about it. It was completely lost in my mind.
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And a couple of weeks ago, I started doing this habit. I started doing this thing called daily story work.
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And I heard about it from Hamza, read it in a book called Storyworthy.
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It's pretty much where every single day you sit down at the end of the day and just write down a story that happened from that day.
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And so I'm sitting there at night time, about to go to bed, and I'm just thinking to myself, huh, what happened today?
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And all my days are pretty much identical. I pretty much do the same thing every day.
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Same thing, same time, my routine is very strict.
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So I'm just thinking like, what did I do? What, like, did anything out of the ordinary happen?
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And after like 10, 15 minutes of thinking, I'm like, I go back through my entire routine. I'm like, okay, I wake up, take a shower, I eat, I go to the park.
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And then I keep doing this and I'm like, oh, I remembered that I did something pretty cool this morning.
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I pretty much acted like I was a preacher on top of a mountain giving a sermon or something like that.
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And just tell my story. And it was a very cool experience.
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And so I was like, oh, that's a really cool story to write down.
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And that's just one of many stories that I have came up with over the past 14 days.
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I've only been doing this for 14 days.
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And I already have so many stories that I can literally, I have them all written down, all the titles of the stories, and I can pick a story and then tell it.
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And I just think that it's so worth it doing this storytelling, like gathering all the stories.
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And the more and more I do it, the more confirmation of that that I get.
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Because even just yesterday, I was reading a book on storytelling and there was a quote.
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He said, Rob Bezenbach on the book, The Power of Storytelling.
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And he said, An effective communicator is a lifelong collector of stories.
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So pretty much you are always collecting stories.
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And that confirmed that was one piece of confirmation that I received from the habit that I've picked up over the past couple weeks.
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I've been collecting stories.
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And it's really worth it. So definitely do that.
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That's like the daily story work.
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I renamed it.
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I think it's actually called like lifelong homework or something like that.
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But it's all the ideas the same.
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You just sit at the end of the day at your journal and question like, what kind of stories happened today?
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Did anything happen that was an interesting thing or something worth telling?
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And I've been pretty much just writing the first thing that comes to mind.
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And then if I have a couple of things, I write down a few other things.
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And it wasn't until over the past like two days that I started thinking about like story structure and like having different elements to your story to actually make sure that it's powerful and not just like a recount of events.
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And so I realized that the definition of a story is in I learned about this in Unleashed the Power of Storytelling.
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He basically said that there are so many different definitions, but the simplest one is a story is a character in pursuit of a goal in the face of a challenge.
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So pretty much just remember that character goal challenge.
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And the my story that I gave earlier, I can't really think of like what the challenge was, but I can think character was me.
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The goal was to become a better storyteller and the challenge I can't really think of it.
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Maybe I don't know, but I think that it was still a pretty good story, even though it didn't really have a challenge.
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Maybe there was a challenge, it was just hidden, I don't know, but start studying storytelling.
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It's very good, it's actually changed my life.
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So I'm standing on top of this mountain. It is still dark outside in the morning. No one's up. No one's in sight.
2
00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:18,000
And I'm just giving a story. Just telling my story. My entire life story, pretty much. And I do this for 20 minutes.
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00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:34,000
And I felt amazing. I was just standing there. Just telling my story. Practicing my body language, my posture, walking around. And I just felt amazing.
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00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:42,000
I felt like the king of the world. And I'm on top of a hill. Like, I'm literally standing on top of a hill. I can see the highway.
5
00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:52,000
Off in the distance of all the cars, zooming by. I can see all the street lights. I can see like this park that I'm standing in front of.
6
00:00:52,000 --> 00:01:05,000
And this like grass area down below. And my audience is just the grass. It's like, I'm just telling my story to the grass.
7
00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:15,000
And this was in the middle of my workout. My morning workout out in the park. And I completely forgot about that.
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00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:25,000
After that happened, I didn't really think much of it because lately I've been doing that a lot. I've been walking around on my walks, telling myself a story, just practicing my storytelling.
9
00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:31,000
I've been walking around the park down below, practicing my storytelling over the past couple of weeks.
10
00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:40,000
It was just a normal, ordinary day. Nothing really out of the ordinary.
11
00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:50,000
And I tell you this because that was a pretty good story, I think. I'm just, I think it was a really cool experience.
12
00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:59,000
But I completely forgot about it. It was completely lost in my mind.
13
00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:08,000
And a couple of weeks ago, I started doing this habit. I started doing this thing called daily story work.
14
00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:14,000
And I heard about it from Hamza, read it in a book called Storyworthy.
15
00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:23,000
It's pretty much where every single day you sit down at the end of the day and just write down a story that happened from that day.
16
00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:33,000
And so I'm sitting there at night time, about to go to bed, and I'm just thinking to myself, huh, what happened today?
17
00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:40,000
And all my days are pretty much identical. I pretty much do the same thing every day.
18
00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000
Same thing, same time, my routine is very strict.
19
00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:54,000
So I'm just thinking like, what did I do? What, like, did anything out of the ordinary happen?
20
00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:09,000
And after like 10, 15 minutes of thinking, I'm like, I go back through my entire routine. I'm like, okay, I wake up, take a shower, I eat, I go to the park.
21
00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:15,000
And then I keep doing this and I'm like, oh, I remembered that I did something pretty cool this morning.
22
00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:22,000
I pretty much acted like I was a preacher on top of a mountain giving a sermon or something like that.
23
00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,000
And just tell my story. And it was a very cool experience.
24
00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:32,000
And so I was like, oh, that's a really cool story to write down.
25
00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:39,000
And that's just one of many stories that I have came up with over the past 14 days.
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00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,000
I've only been doing this for 14 days.
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And I already have so many stories that I can literally, I have them all written down, all the titles of the stories, and I can pick a story and then tell it.
28
00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:03,000
And I just think that it's so worth it doing this storytelling, like gathering all the stories.
29
00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:09,000
And the more and more I do it, the more confirmation of that that I get.
30
00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:15,000
Because even just yesterday, I was reading a book on storytelling and there was a quote.
31
00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:22,000
He said, Rob Bezenbach on the book, The Power of Storytelling.
32
00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:31,000
And he said, An effective communicator is a lifelong collector of stories.
33
00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,000
So pretty much you are always collecting stories.
34
00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:46,000
And that confirmed that was one piece of confirmation that I received from the habit that I've picked up over the past couple weeks.
35
00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000
I've been collecting stories.
36
00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,000
And it's really worth it. So definitely do that.
37
00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000
That's like the daily story work.
38
00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000
I renamed it.
39
00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,000
I think it's actually called like lifelong homework or something like that.
40
00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,000
But it's all the ideas the same.
41
00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:09,000
You just sit at the end of the day at your journal and question like, what kind of stories happened today?
42
00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:14,000
Did anything happen that was an interesting thing or something worth telling?
43
00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,000
And I've been pretty much just writing the first thing that comes to mind.
44
00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000
And then if I have a couple of things, I write down a few other things.
45
00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:39,000
And it wasn't until over the past like two days that I started thinking about like story structure and like having different elements to your story to actually make sure that it's powerful and not just like a recount of events.
46
00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:50,000
And so I realized that the definition of a story is in I learned about this in Unleashed the Power of Storytelling.
47
00:05:50,000 --> 00:06:03,000
He basically said that there are so many different definitions, but the simplest one is a story is a character in pursuit of a goal in the face of a challenge.
48
00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:08,000
So pretty much just remember that character goal challenge.
49
00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:19,000
And the my story that I gave earlier, I can't really think of like what the challenge was, but I can think character was me.
50
00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:25,000
The goal was to become a better storyteller and the challenge I can't really think of it.
51
00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:32,000
Maybe I don't know, but I think that it was still a pretty good story, even though it didn't really have a challenge.
52
00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:38,000
Maybe there was a challenge, it was just hidden, I don't know, but start studying storytelling.
53
00:06:38,000 --> 00:07:03,000
It's very good, it's actually changed my life.
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