Matthew Dicks
32 statements across 2 episodes · 11 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 1, 2023 by Lane Shackleton · said 8 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Jonathan Becker (4), Lane Shackleton (3), Lenny Rachitsky (1)
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
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Oct 1, 2023 positive
Shackleton: Great stories are built around a five-second moment of transformation
“The nugget of a great story is like five seconds of transformation. So if you just orient like everything else around that, like moment of trans, you know, transformation, then you end up usually telling a reasonably good story.”
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Dicks: Using nostalgia demonstrates company expertise and reliably adds humor
“It's relevant to talk about the past as a company to demonstrate your expertise in your field. To understand that we know the market backwards and forwards for the last 50 years. We have expertise, and we can demonstrate it by telling a story, right? So that's…”
Dec 15, 2023 neutral
Dicks: Time feels fast because people fail to account for daily memories
“You know, people say that time flies and it doesn't. What happens is it goes by unaccounted. If you can only remember 89 days of 365 in a year, of course time flies, because you had three 65 and you only remember 89. It's gonna feel like it went by quickly. It…”
Dec 15, 2023
Dicks: Married men in business should disclose marriage to project safety
“If you're married, you should always make it clear to people you're married, especially if you're a man, because if you're a man and you're married, you're safer in the world because men are inherently just dangerous human beings.”
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Dec 15, 2023 neutral
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Matthew Dicks: Every story should open with location and immediate action
“So two things should start every story you ever tell for the rest of your life. So you start with location. Where are you? Location activates imagination, right? If I say I'm standing in the kitchen, You've already automatically applied a thousand adjectives t…”
Dec 15, 2023
Dec 15, 2023
Dicks: Being entertaining is the most important requirement in any communication
“Ultimately, no matter what you're doing, whether I am teaching a fifth grader how to behave better, or presenting a new product for a large company, or helping someone deliver in all hands, the first and most important thing you have to be is entertaining. You…”
Dec 15, 2023
Dicks: People mentioning past experiences secretly want to be asked about them
“Listen for people who say things like, oh, something like that happened to me once. What they're really saying is, I wish someone would want to hear what happened to me once, and so I am always someone who's willing to say, Oh, tell me that story. Offer someon…”
Dec 15, 2023
Dec 15, 2023
Dicks: Storytelling is about decision-making, not vocabulary or language facility
“Storytelling is not about facility with the language or your vocabulary. It's all about decision making. That's all it is. Storytellers are people who think before they speak. They make strategical, tactical decisions before they speak.”
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Dicks: Leaders should build a story vault rather than use one-off fixes
“If you're building bricks, you're a storyteller that's capturing stories and building bricks that you can eventually deploy into business. If you're a band-aid person, which is fine, that happens. I have a problem, Matt, and I need a story to solve it. Essenti…”
Dec 15, 2023
Dicks: Storytellers should spread stakes across the first half, not front-load them
“So often people load the front end of a story with all of the stakes because they're worried that the audience will not pay attention to them. So they think I'm going to throw everything right in front and that'll hold an audience for the rest of the story. An…”
Dec 15, 2023
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Dec 15, 2023
Dicks: Every compelling story centers on a five-second moment of transformation
“Essentially every story is about a singular moment. I call it five seconds. It can be 1:02. Honestly, it's a moment of either transformation, meaning sort of, I'm telling you a story about how I once used to be one kind of person and now I'm a new kind of pers…”
Dec 15, 2023
Dicks: Stories resonate because audiences universally relate to finding belief
“And that's why a story like that resonates with us in a way that another story might not, because we all understand what it's like to not believe in something, And then find belief in something, whether that is religious belief, or I used to think cheeseburger…”
Dec 15, 2023
Dicks: Corporate leaders want to have been funny without taking humor risks
“Everyone wants to be funny. Every person I've ever met who I've worked with every business person in some way wanted to be funny, but that's really not actually what they want. They want to have been funny. Because being funny means you must take a risk.”
Dec 15, 2023 positive
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Dec 15, 2023 positive
Dicks: Stories in formal pitches should sound like natural dinner conversations
“When you're telling a story in a formal way, if you're performing on a stage or delivering a keynote, or even delivering sort of a pitch to entrepreneurs or a sales pitch, essentially the story that you're telling should be very closely related to the story yo…”
Dec 15, 2023
Dec 15, 2023 negative
Dicks: Storytellers should never open a story with unattributed dialogue
“Weird things that people do should not be done, like opening a story with unattributed dialogue. You know, so you're standing on stage and you open your story with, Jim, it's time to come in for dinner, my wife said. Like, that's just weird. We don't talk like…”
Dec 15, 2023
Dicks: Stories Must Be About the Speaker to Convey True Vulnerability
“If you're telling a story about someone else, essentially you might as well be telling fiction because that person's not in the room and to the audience, they don't really exist unless they're, you know, if they can't see them, that person is just another huma…”
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Dicks: Compelling stories begin and end in opposition
“Every story should be essentially a beginning and an end in opposition to each other, and you should start at the end. That guarantees that you have something important to say, rather than what most people do, which is they simply report on their lives. They j…”
Dec 15, 2023
Dec 15, 2023
Dicks: Speakers must use stakes, surprise, suspense, or humor to keep attention
“It's stakes, it's surprise, it's suspense, and it's humor. Those are the ways that you're going to hold people and keep them listening, and if you're not engaged in one of those four things while you're speaking, people are not listening to you anymore.”
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Dicks: Match stories to business ideas by theme, not literal content
“The best way to sort of tell a story about something that you want people to understand is to do what I call speaking with adjacency, which means we're not going to match content to content. Instead, we're going to match theme, meaning, or message.”