The Story You Shouldn't Tell (Part One)
As much as I love stories and storytelling, there is one story that you should never tell: The story that makes you cry when you tell it.
Hear me out—you should tell emotional stories. But there is a common misconception that getting emotional during a story means that you’re doing something right. The truth is, you couldn’t be more wrong.
When you’re telling a story, you should be telling it to make the listener feel something. You should be taking the audience on a journey to the lesson you want to teach. When you start crying during your story, you’ve ruined the audience’s journey. Instead of feeling the emotions of your story, they feel concerned about you.
Listen in as I teach you how to avoid turning your story into a therapy session, and learn how to turn the story you shouldn’t tell into one that you can.
