“A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.”
Ideas are the currency of Difference Makers, and storytelling is their best means of conveyance.
Paul Harvey. Vin Scully. Steve Jobs. Ronald Reagan. John F. Kennedy. Carol Burnett.
Roy H. Williams is up there on the Mt. Rushmore of storytelling with those and many others, men and women, professional and amateur.
This week is about Roy, not the book (Pendulum, in case you haven’t bought it yet). So, after three days of heavy posts, I’ll keep this one brief and a bit lighter.
“Daddy, tell me a story,” The Three would say when they were little. It was a sweet, heartfelt request, which I miss wholeheartedly as they’ve become adults. The sweet, usually sleepy request to “tell me a story” was rarely about the story. It was about the telling.
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