Storytelling Lesson: Learn the “Homework for Life” by Matthew Dicks

Storytelling Lesson: Learn the “Homework for Life” by Matthew Dicks

I was just browsing on a lazy Sunday afternoon to learn about speaking from the heart and weaving stories into my content. I came across a beautiful blog post from Speaking by heart, that featured a TEDx video of Matthew Dicks, on learning a valuable skill for life: Take 2 minutes Writing down an incident from your life every single night before you go to bed.

He uses a simple spreadsheet to write it down, it need not be the entire story – it just needs to be a couple of sentences long, or a mix of keywords that help you recall that incident.

If you do this regularly, By the end of the month, you will have 30 stories that you can weave into your content.

Here’s the video – it’s a must-watch!

I have added this to my daily routine :

Are you going to implement this? Let me know in the comments below:

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