Some skills are way more valuable than others.
Storytelling isn’t just for entertainment. And definitely it goes beyond marketing and sales. This is THE best tool for your self-growth.
Here are 13 ways why…
1: Reflect and Reframe.
Your experiences can become stories.
While telling them, you’ll have a deeper understanding of your emotions, perspectives, and lessons learned.
2: Empathy and Connection.
Stories are meant to be shares with others.
This improves your ability to connect with people, empathize with them and make them feel understood.
3: Problem-Solving.
Through stories, you train your lateral thinking, which helps you identify and overcome challenges in your life.
It’s like a simulation for real-life situations.
(btw, that’s why TTRPGs are such an amazing educational tool for children)
4: Creativity and Imagination.
Storytelling trains your creativity.
It forces you to have a vivid imagination.
Something that television and video games took away from us…
5: Self-Confidence.
Sharing your stories can boost your self-confidence.
They will also confirm, in your mind, your success and remind you of the countless struggles you faced and now take for granted.
6: Journaling.
Journaling is THE best habit anyone should have.
When you write down your thoughts, ideas and feelings, you are reinforcing countless aspect of yourself. It’s self-reflection in its best form.
Trust me, keeping a journal is not for little girls…
7: Clear thinking.
The internal dialogue is, by its nature, a force that needs to be controlled.
Most people, by not controlling it, are often anxious, depressed and feel powerless towards life.
Habitual storytelling leads you to great mental clarity.
8: New relationships.
You don’t tell stories in a vacuum.
It doesn’t matter if you tell stories through writing, acting or public speaking, you are going to share them.
And that will be a great way to create new, interesting relationships.
9: Dynamic, interconnected learning.
Subjects in school are taught in a compartmentalized way.
History, science, math… they are all connected. Storytelling helps connect all your old and new knowledge in a way that school has never been able to do.
10: Improved awareness.
To improve your stories, you need to add details.
The more you do that, the more you naturally become aware of the surrounding details.
You will start to notice things that have always eluded you, giving you a deeper appreciation and understanding for the world around you.
11: Flexible skill.
Storytelling is the most important form of communication.
Every culture of the world communicates using stories.
By training this skill, countless doors open for you.
12: Valuable skill.
It’s not just about flexibility.
Storytelling is essential in copywriting, salesmanship and public speaking.
And these are 3 of the highest paying roles you can fill.
13: Adaptability of communication.
Writing a story is different from telling it in front of a live audience.
When you master storytelling you quickly know how to adapt your communication style from one medium to another.
This is something that is often taken for granted. But, as many media producers proved, it’s far from the truth.