STORY

We are all great storytellers. 

We constantly tell stories about our lives, our beliefs, our ideas, our convictions, our wins, our losses, our likes, our dislikes but often we don’t recognise what truly, great storytellers we are.

We have all put in our 10,000 hours creating stories about ourself and others based on where we were born, our upbringing, education, family, friends, experiences, travels, politics, religion, culture, language… We think we are someone, somewhere, concerned about something and we know you are someone else, somewhere else concerned about something else.

But though we are master storytellers but we are also reliably unreliable. Our moods constantly change: we are happy, sad, angry, bored, lethargic, tired, excited, joyous, crazy, wise…

So, our stories change too. 

We do many rewrites, sometimes working in writers’ rooms but mostly alone. We constantly draft, edit and refine our stories and look for the people, places, preferences, products and passions that support our own unique, evolving narrative. But the real magic happens when, in the legendary words of Julian Cope, ‘You realize, it’s just a story’. 

When we realize it’s just a story, life, we can relax, feel and experience the play of sound and light. We can change who we think we are, what we think we do, think, feel or believe any time, any place, anywhere. 

We can change our story.

As the master storytellers we are, we can use our skills not only to change our own story but also the stories we tell others. We can create actual books, plays, films, podcasts, videos, art, courses, lectures, manuals, workshops… social media posts… 

We can use our storytelling skills to help ourselves and others, tell a new story.

Stories have power.

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