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Storyworthy

Written by: Matthew Dicks, Dan Kennedy - foreword
Narrated by: Matthew Dicks, John Glouchevitch
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Publisher's Summary

A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.

Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.

©2018 Matthew Dicks. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Amazing Listen for the Art of Storytelling

Loved the Stories and the way Matthew describes Storytelling is inspirational for aspiring Storytellers

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Excellent book on personal storytelling

Although I am into storytelling for professional reasons, I found the tools and techniques outlined in this book to be very useful.

I especially liked the chapter on why every story is about the 5-second moment. Wonder how I missed it all this while.

I just wish the narrator could have expressed some emotions while narrating. Otherwise, this is an awesome resource.

I am telling this after 10-hours of listening. I think the author has the skills to hold our attention for another ten hours, if he wants to.

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A must listen!

Excellent content. It's narration by the author himself added to the charisma of the book. The learnings can be applied to all spheres of life.

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Most Engaging Book Ever

This is one of the most engaging book I've ever read. This is a book that makes you worthy through better stories!

it's not crafted for specific audience. Author aims to help everyone, in every age and in every profession.

It's read-worthy infact reread-worthy!

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Speeds-up after the first few chapters

Acceleration after a few chapters is not to say that the first few are meaningless... they are brilliant but I know I may need to listen to them again to get the force of their impact once I've finished listening or reading the rest of the book. This book does make the story teller come alive in more than one way and the best part is that even as one listens there are stories from one's own life that can be felt as wanting to be written. A great source of information and guidance for a writer. - Arvind Passey - Blog: www.passey.info

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Priceless insights

Storyworthy - took me deep into the art of story telling , some great stories , process behind it and the masterminds of those stories.

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Recommended for Aspiring Storytellers!

He offers extremely simple advice to aspiring storytellers and writers. But despite its simplicity, it’s extremely effective.

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enriching listen

A very helpful listen, highly recommended. Matthew Dicks explains elaborately how to go about the art of story telling

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Brilliant and moving

So much to learn from this book. Matthew is generous in teaching and transparent in his manner.

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Stories make this world a better place.

The cover of this book doesn't do justice to the content within. I would not even categorise this book as a self-help book, self-help books are not this much fun. Matthew dicks has a nasal voice which was a little distracting in audiobook but the way he tells stories overcome these tiny issues. Once I Heard his first story I was sold. He has this way of telling the story that you would be enchanted.
Stories have always been important to me, Especially the fictional one's. if you really think about it all stories gets fictitious at some point, even the real stories. Stories based on actual events often share more with fiction than fact. Both fictions and memories are recalled and retold. They're both forms of stories. Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other. But reality happens only once.

I always thought that being a good storyteller is a skill that you're born with, it's not a skill That you can develop over time but after reading this book I not only learnt about storytelling and it's importance but I laughed a lot.
so please read the whole book because this book is filled with good stories based on actual events.
some key points I remember about storytelling.
Few seconds of the beginning is important of the story.
Beginning and ending of a story should be opposite, why, because you want your audience to be surprised in a good way.
Stories should be about not more than one thing.
Don't do accents, you might come off racist.
Most of the people usually tell their stories in past tense but you could also use present tense if you want your audience to relive that moment as if it is happening right now.
Always tell the location of the story.
Restraint from bragging, Even about your biggest achievement.
Restraint from overusing the word "and" in your stories. Instead use therefore and but. Like I went to my friend house for sleepover but we didn't wanna sleep. Therefore we stayed up late overnight.

Don't say like "I was dumb", say "I was not smart" it's more interesting this way.
Also use of less profanity helps your stories.
Don't use celebrities names in your stories. for example If i say " my friend looks like the discount version of Zooey Deschanel" not everyone is aware of every celebrity out there. Instead say Like she was kind of a girl who was always unemployed but always had enough money to go by for the next few weeks. Her new obsession would be cooler than the previous one.
Use humour only in the beginning so the audience would relax and realise that everything is going to be okay. Don't use humour if you feel that you're not a funny guy or gal, it doesn't matter.
There should always be a momentum in the beginning of the story which implies that we're going somewhere.

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