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Matthew Dicks

Storyteller & Author, Storyworthy · 1 appearance on the record.

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Matthew Dicks is a multi-time Moth GrandSLAM champion and bestselling author of books including Storyworthy and Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend. A longtime educator, he coaches business leaders and trains corporate teams on narrative structure and public speaking.

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3 assertions · 1 opinion · 24 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Matthew argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Matthew Dicks on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Matthew Dicks said on Capital Allocators that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
'Speaking Through Adjacency' Translates Personal Stories Into Business Concepts
“One of the ways that works really well is what I call speaking through adjacency, meaning we're going to use a personal story, but we're going to use it in order to relate a business concept to it.”
Matthew Dicks Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 58:14 Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
Insight
Steve Jobs Mastered Four Key Storytelling Tactics in One Minute
“If you watch Steve Jobs' 2007 iPhone launch, he uses steak, suspense, surprise, and humor. All four of them in the 1:06 minutes of the presentation. He does it masterfully and brilliantly. He's not really telling a story. He's bringing out a new product for a …”
Matthew Dicks Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 1:00:34 Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
Assertion Partly supported
Steve Jobs Practiced for Months and Still Misstated His Second Sentence
“Jobs famously practiced for months on that performance. The crazy thing about it is he messes up on the second sentence. He actually speaks the fourth sentence second, cuts himself off, fixes it, and then goes back.”
Matthew Dicks Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 1:05:27 Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
Insight
Stories Designed for Self-Praise Make Audiences Dislike the Speaker
“The pet peeve is someone gets on stage because they want to say nice things about themselves and they couch it within a story. Nobody wants that. I don't even think your mother wants that. It's weird because they want us to like them more, but what they've don…”
Matthew Dicks Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 1:27:24 Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dicks Landed Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google as Consulting Clients in Six Months
“Within six months, I found myself working with Microsoft and Salesforce and Slack and Google.”
Matthew Dicks Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 23:51 Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)

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Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477) Dec 15, 2025 1h 11m
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