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storytelling is one of the most powerful
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skills you can learn the people who have
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the most influence on this planet are
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good storytellers teachers use them to
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convey important concept comedians use
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them to make us laugh companies use them
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to sell their products and politicians
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use them to campaign and take power a
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recent study even found that good
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storytellers are seen as significantly
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more attractive and are even considered
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more important so how exactly do you
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become a good storyteller
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well every good story is told in the
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same exact format that is comprised of
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three parts if you can learn and master
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these three parts you can become a
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significantly better storyteller the
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first part is to set up this is where
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you set the scene for your story you
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give the listener enough detail for them
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to know what you're going to talk about
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think of it as the cover of a book if
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you don't have a proper set up a proper
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cover people will not listen to your
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story they're not going to pick up that
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book you'll hear comments like oh you're
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so random or haha you're so weird
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if you do not have a proper setup what
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you want to make sure to is that your
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story is relatable to the subject at
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hand for example if my friends were
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talking about their crazy college
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roommates I could bring up a story about
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my old roommate if my friends are
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talking about people they looked up to
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in the past I could bring in a story
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about my boss who I used to look up to
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the second part is the content it's here
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where you get to the meat of the story
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describes events that occur but if you
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spend too much time covering unnecessary
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details people will quickly lose
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interest
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I'm sure we've all met those people who
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just talk and talk and talk and never
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get to the point it's safe to say people
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don't really listen to their stories a
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good principle to remember here is kiss
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vs kill keep it short and simple versus
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keeping it long and lengthy if a piece
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of information is not crucial for the
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story to make sense
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do not included think back to the last
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time you watched a good movie what was
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going on in your head while you're
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watching this movie that made it so
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great it might have been funny or
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beautiful but the most important factor
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it had was tension by building more and
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more tension the listener gets more and
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more invested they wonder
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oh my god what's going to happen how
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will this story and now in order to
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build tension the meat of your story has
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to be interesting the events that occur
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has to be something that doesn't
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normally happen for example you can tell
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a story about you going to the
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supermarket and all that happens is that
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you buy groceries
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there's no tension the story is boring
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if people stopped paying attention
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halfway to your story it's because
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you're either killing it or you're not
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building enough tension the third and
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final part of a good story is the
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resolution is here when you release all
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of the tension you built up in the
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previous step in comedy the resolution
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is the punchline in presentations your
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resolution is your conclusion if you
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don't properly resolve your story people
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will not realize your story is done now
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I know that this is a lot to take in
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so what we're going to do is we're going
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to analyze a couple of stories and break
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down exactly what part is what so you
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can get an idea of exactly how you
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should tell a story I think it's very
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important to have a mentor you can look
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up to the man who taught me everything I
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know about hustling work at the chasing
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your dreams with my old sales manager so
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one day he was out trying to make
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himself he knocks on the door and the
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guy opens up and says what do you want
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so my boss starts his pitch
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hi nice to meet you my name is Jim we
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did some updates in the area i'm just
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here to talk to you about your internet
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and the guy goes oh you're a Salesman
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right we'll get the fuck off my porch
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now the thing about being a good
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salesman is that you have to stay
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persistent you'll be surprised how many
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extra sales you can make by just
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standing your ground so my boss goes
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look I understand you're busy but it's
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only going to take 30 seconds so the guy
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reaches behind his back pulls out a gun
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and pistol with my boss right across the
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face course and you know what my boss
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said ok so now can we talk about your
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internet man I couldn't have asked for a
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better mentor so if we take a look at
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this top part right here this is to set
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up the listener knows that i'm going to
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talk about a mentor of mine someone who
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inspired me if we take a look at the
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second part this is the context the meat
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of the story
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what you'll notice is that I'm only
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mentioning the most crucial details i'm
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not telling you about the weather that
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day or what time it is because frankly
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none of that stuff is important for the
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story to make sense
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but you'll also notice is that I throw
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in sound effects this is something that
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a lot of good storytellers will do it
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will add sound effects facial
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expressions and even change their voice
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in order to make the story see more
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animated the listener can see a clear
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picture of exactly what is happening
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this line over here
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the thing about being a good salesman is
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that you have to stay persistent disk
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builds tension the listener now knows
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that my boss is going to do something
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and if we look at this line right here
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and you know what my boss said this line
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right here built a tremendous amount of
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tension the listeners thinking to
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himself oh I can feel a punchline coming
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I wonder what it is and that's when you
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hit them with the resolution it closes
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up the whole story shows the listener
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why I looked up to my boss so much and
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what you'll notice that i doing a line I
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couldn't have asked for a better mentor
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this is what's called a closing
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statement
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it shows the listener that the story is
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now over here is another example when I
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was in college my roommate had a funny
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habit of hurting himself in the weirdest
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ways possible he was by far the
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unluckiest person I had ever met in my
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life
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so one day he comes back into our room
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looking really really sad so I say Adam
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what happened man he looks at me and
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says my girlfriend just broke up with me
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will do you want to talk about it now be
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fine
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sounds like okay understand sometimes
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guys need to get over things by yourself
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I turn around and go back onto my laptop
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and suddenly I hear I turn around and
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Adam is clutching his arm and there's a
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knife about an inch deep into his hand
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looks just spraying everywhere it was
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crazy
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so it turns out he had taken out his
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pocketknife and he threw it at the wall
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in frustration the knife somehow bounced
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off the wall and stabbed him back in his
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own hand
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I don't know what he did in his previous
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life because that man definitely did not
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have god's favor
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so again the first part of this story is
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the setup the listener knows that we're
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going to talk about a roommate of mine
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who somehow hurt himself the next part
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is the content is here why describe what
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happens you'll notice that this content
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is very dialogue heavy when you have a
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dialogue heavy story you have to change
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your voice and make it very animated
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give each character
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a slightly different voice for the
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listener knows who's speaking
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the last part is the resolution it
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closes this story and throws in a little
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joke about luck and karma almost all of
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the best storytellers out there we'll
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throw in a pinch of humor
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regardless of what type of story they
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are telling if you want to learn more
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about humor you guys can check out my
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video on humor which are linked to in
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the description below
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not everyone has a different style when
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it comes to telling stories but you'll
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notice that the best storytellers will
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always follow this three-part format if
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you want to get better a storytelling
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the best way to do so is by practicing
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so we're going to do a little exercise a
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little challenge in the comments below
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try and write your own story tried to
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follow all of the tips that I mentioned
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in this video as well as the three-part
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format after posting your story i'll
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give you some constructive criticism