> Practice, practice, practice.
When practicing for a presentation, I'm always getting bored by my own story after the first rehearsal.
That is the point. So then you change it and rinse repeat. What's left over is something more than the first.
“How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”
Re:How do I improve my storytelling?
by denzil_correa on Sunday August 20, 2017 @07:22AM
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I think you mean "Deliberate Practice".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)#Del...
Here's a relevant post by Andrew Ng, who credits deliberate practice for greatly improving his public speaking.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140320175655-176238488-lear...
Deliberate practice and perceptual exposure are the corner stones of effective learning.
They're both based on the premise to consume small parts, how does this work with stories?
People can look at hundreds of math examples in 30min and probably solve a few special parts of problems in 30min.
But how do you do this with stories?
Write 5-10 intros in an hour?
What parts of a story are even small enough to count as deliberate practice when your write them?
Intro, main, outro? Is this like with songs? Are there fills? interludes? breaks?
Re:How do I improve my storytelling?
by denzil_correa on Sunday August 20, 2017 @09:16AM
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There's an entire book dedicated to it "Putting Stories to Work"
http://www.anecdote.com/2016/11/how-to-practice-storytelling...
The best advice in the world only works in the context of practice.
Practicing makes advice meaningful.
Practice and then practice more. Then practice more.
Get feedback. Seek advice. Iterate. But practice.
Name anyone who mastered a performance art who didn't practice more than most. Even if you can, I can name a hundred who did.
Practice, practice, practice.
Find audiences you can practice with and practice with them. Until then, practice by yourself, in front of a wall if that's what you have. Use a mirror or a camera. Practice. The more you practice, the more audiences you'll find.
Then practice more.