Joshua Lisec

How did it turn out?

How did all the stuff that I told you before with the setup, how did it actually go?

Now, this can become a full-fledged

book just from this one little anecdote with these five points in just a couple of sentences.

You can unfold it out from here.

So you can sort of scale this up or scale this down depending on how much time that you have.

So I could expand, for example,

on who it was that I pitched this TEDx talk to.

Perhaps I was nervous about this.

In the one example, I could talk about how, and I'd given you these details earlier, which I had sort of followed the expanded version of this, an unfolded, longer version, scaled up version of this.

When I originally told you this anecdote, this is a scaled down version, which I communicated in roughly three to four sentences.

Whereas the first time I told you earlier in the show, it was closer to three to four minutes.

And also, if I wanted to teach this, this exact same story, I could expand it into a three to four hour workshop following all the dimensions of this without any deviation.

That's why I love this and I call it the easiest storytelling because anytime you need to tell a story, what's the easiest way to do it?

Whether it's three to four sentences, three to four minutes, or a frigging workshop, three to four hours.

You come back to these six things every single time and you just add more details to each of them to expand it given how much time you have allotted.

Fantastic.

So you've, so now you have sort of ownership of the story.

It's yours, like locked into your mind.

This is why everyone always says the book was better than the movie about everything because the author, the novelist, AKA the literary hypnotist, which is what all novelists are, the literary hypnotists, they create a simulation for you that allows you to, with your own detail, fill in how the characters look, what they look like, how they interact one with another.