Date Published: December 13, 2024
I have a confession to make. After 21 years of telling other peoples stories, I still cringe when people ask me to tell my own.
I’m the one who overthinks it when I’m in a group and have to share “one fun fact about yourself.” What does that one thing imply about the rest of me?! Too much pressure.
But then I realized: Like in most other situations - people aren’t thinking about you. They mostly care how that moment or interaction makes them feel and how it interests them.
Mind you, I don’t mean this in a cynical way. I mean it in the most sincere and empathetically-minded way it can be meant. That we need to consider others when we tell a story.
The takeaway: What we expect to be interesting to other people may lose them. It may make them politely excuse themselves or scroll through to the next post.
Conversely, the dusty old story you have no interest in trotting back out because you lived it a million times over, may be exactly what makes your listener (read: your next important relationship) lean in and listen.
Why? Because your story is a mirror and your audience sees themselves in your story.
So don’t be a plank this holiday season! Bring some life to the party and sharpen your “lean in story” to connect with your audience. Because to know you is to love you, even more. ❤️
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