Joshua Lisec
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
that gives your autobiographical details, and then they'll really zoom in, wink, wink, on early life section, let's say.
And again, who really cares, okay?
That's not getting you much of anywhere.
So even in the age of AI, when I'm brought in to work with someone on their memoir or their autobiography,
I will focus in on the how dimension, meaning what kind of story is it that you're wanting to tell?
What sort of lessons do you want to communicate?
How do you want to be remembered?
How do you want to add value to people's lives?
How do you want people to recommend your book to others?
And it's like, oh, you mean I have to be useful?
Oh, yes.
Scott Adams here.
And therefore, depending on what the how they want to communicate is, then we'll focus on this setup of it.
What was the inciting incident of your life that sent you into your how, so to speak?
So then the first chapter might be one of the most important or significant or life-altering episodes of their life.
And we communicate it in these dimensions, who, what, when, where, and why.
And then the rest of the book now teaches out the how, let's say.
Yes, you could think of it as the inciting incident or the lead up.
And if there's not going to be a full story after it and you want to tell a short little like a mini story or a one act play or relating something, I could even communicate that by teaching how to give, let's say, a panic free speech in front of tens of thousands of people.
And it's...