"Whoever can tell stories will control the world, and whoever owns the whole world." This is what Ancient Greek philosopher Plato said, and he did not exaggerate it. American psychology professor Dennis Rebello also believes that storytellers can look down on the world. This is because everyone likes to listen to stories. Ordinary people want to convince others that they are justified, while experts like to influence others through stories.
is also a storyteller. Some people attract attention as soon as they open their mouths, while others speak stutteringly and boring. Not only do people not like to listen, but storytellers also feel frustrated and may even lose many opportunities. So how do you tell a story that everyone else likes to hear?
American psychology professor Dennis Rebel pointed out in the book "Peak Story: How to Impress Others with Your Story": Using the Peak Story Model, you can tell a unique and popular personal story.
1. What is the peak story?
The so-called peak story refers to being able to tell your past and future development direction through a story, while reflecting your unique value, so that others will be interested in you as soon as they hear it.
Tell your peak story, which can win attention and the understanding and recognition of the audience. There are three types of story in the peak story, namely: a strong hero story, a collaborative story of cooperation with people, and a combination of superego stories.
Then we can also look for peak stories suitable for telling from the perspectives of strength, cooperation, kindness, etc. In this process, you can also help yourself recognize yourself and discover your own value, so as to better plan your life.
2. Use the peak story model well and tell the story well
. Know the peak story, and knowing it can give us more opportunities to understand. So how can we tell our own story well? To help everyone tell good stories, the author has created a peak story model.
1. Find your own blue dot moment
Maybe someone will say that I also want to tell a good story, but I am just an ordinary person, living an ordinary life, and there is nothing to tell. In fact, this is because you haven't found your blue dot moment, which means you won't find your own shining points.
The so-called blue dot moment refers to the important moments in your life. In your past experience, the moments of overcoming obstacles and making major decisions, the moments of successfully working with others, and the moments of hard work and study can all be blue dot moments in your life.
Many ordinary people have had the experience of hard study, especially some small town test workers. They worked hard to do the questions and deliberately practiced their skills from poor areas with insufficient educational resources, and then rushed to the university. These are also their blue dot moments.
2. Select blue dot moments through classification and sorting
When we tell stories, we must be targeted. You can choose different story content based on your intention to tell the story and who your audience is. We need to tell stories that our audience is willing to listen to from our own life experiences, and we need to select blue dot moments for specific audiences from past experiences, so that we can get the response we want from our audience.
For example, if you want to recruit partners, then when you choose the Blue Dot moment, you need to find some stories about successful cooperation with others in your work. Through these stories, make your audience feel that you can trust and cooperate, so that you can achieve your intention to tell the story.
For example, if you want to get the support from caring people through storytelling, then when you choose the Blue Dot moment, you can find more stories that you face strongly when facing difficulties in life and study. Let everyone understand your strength, kindness, and difficulties through your story, so they are willing to help you.
3. Integrate and adjust your story
After selecting your blue dot moment, you can think from the four story elements of ability, motivation, characters, and location, so as to sort out your story context, connect these 3 blue dot moments, and integrate a peak story.
Before telling stories to the outside world, we can first try to tell ourselves through recording, and then adjust our voice tone appropriately.
When adjusting, you should consider the following factors:
① Intention to tell a story
② Core information of the story
③ Whether the details of the story are in line with the group of listeners
④ The rhythm of telling a story
⑤ Talk style
⑥ Pause appropriately
After several such modifications and adjustments, the peak story that satisfies you will be created. Next, you just need to bravely tell it in front of others.
Jobs's famous speech at the graduation ceremony of Stanford University won warm applause by telling the peak story. Jobs first told him that he overcame his school aversion to learning, overcoming the pressure of life in college, and finding the calligraphy he was interested in through exploration. This is his strong heroic story. He and Stephen Woz founded Apple in the garage. Through 10 years of hard work, Apple has become a household name. The value will reach 2 billion. This is a collaborative story of his successful collaboration with people. Later, he founded Pixar and produced the world's first computer animation movie, which is his super ego blue dot moment.
In a speech, he connected three critical moments in his life and showed himself to the audience through three stories. Not only did the audience feel curious about learning experience, but also the successful experience of starting a business at Apple and alone.
Everyone has unique excitement. Learn to use the peak story model and you can tell your own story well.
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